The title character of one of this author's poems "loves like a gander, and adores a goose" and taught the speaker to "Turn, and Counter-turn, and stand.
A poem addressed to this author ends with the line "The Garden Master's gone." That poem, collected in Dream Songs, is by John Berryman. The title character of one of this author's poems "loves like a gander, and adores a goose" and taught the speaker to "Turn, and Counter-turn, and stand." This author of "I Knew a Woman" also wrote a poem in which the speaker remembers how he and another character "romped until the pans/Slid from the kitchen shelf."  In one of his poems, the speaker exclaims "God bless the Ground!" and states that he "should know/What falls away is always. And is near." That poem ends with the line "I learn by going where I have to go." The speaker of another poem by this author remembers "the neckcurls, limp and damp as tendrils" in a poem about a girl "thrown from a horse." For 10 points, name this American author of "My Papa's Waltz," "The Waking," and "Elegy for Jane."
A poem addressed to this author ends with the line "The Garden Master's gone.
Theodore {Roethke}