He wrote that "the turnstile at Greenwich / chimed with laughter / my subway token" in one poem and describes the title substance "on the courthouse lawn" while he smokes it in "Grass." In one collection by this poet, he cont
He wrote that "the turnstile at Greenwich / chimed with laughter / my subway token" in one poem and describes the title substance "on the courthouse lawn" while he smokes it in "Grass." In one collection by this poet, he contrasts one poem in which "a departing occupier" leaves a "heart green acre" with another that begins "Seen from above, the sky / is deep." Those works, "A Downward Look" and "An Upward Look," appear in his collection A Scattering of Salts. A child waits for the delivery of a jigsaw puzzle in this man's semi-autobiographical Lost in Translation. Psyche screams, "Look alive! Much to do!" in his most famous work, an epic poem that uses W.H. Auden as a spirit guide and has sections like "Scripts for the Pageant" and "The Book of Ephraim." For 10 points, name this American poet of The Changing Light at Sandover.
He wrote that "the turnstile at Greenwich / chimed with laughter / my subway token" in one poem and describes the title substance "on the courthouse lawn" while he smokes it in "Grass."
James Ingram Merrill