" When he won a Pulitzer for his collection
In a poem by this author, smoke arising from an object abandoned in a gully tells the townspeople that a derelict has "established his bad castle" in that object. He wrote about how one day he will "no longer find myself in life as in a strange garment" in a poem in which he muses, "every year without knowing it I have passed the day when the last fires will wave to me." When he won a Pulitzer for his collection The (*) Carrier of Ladders, this author of "The Drunk in the Furnace" and "For the Anniversary of My Death" donated the prize money to the Vietnam draft resistance movement. For decades, this poet has lived on a former pineapple plantation in Hawaii, working to restore the rainforest there. For 10 points, name this environmentalist poet also known for his translation of Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair.
In a poem by this author, smoke arising from an object abandoned in a gully tells the townspeople that a derelict has "established his bad castle" in that object.
William Stanley Merwin