The penultimate chapter of this man's novel takes place during Art Night at Benton College, where Gertrude Johnson and President Robbins get into a spat.  
The penultimate chapter of this man's novel takes place during Art Night at Benton College, where Gertrude Johnson and President Robbins get into a spat.  The title character of one of his poems is dissatisfied with letters from a postman and wants aliens to summon him instead, while the speaker of another poem remembers William James's definition of wisdom as learning what to overlook.  In addition to "Next Day" and "A Sick Child," he wrote a number of poems set during World War II, including "A Field Hospital" and "Eighth Air Force."  However, he's best known for a five line poem about a man who hunched in the belly of the state till his wet fur froze.  FTP, name this author of "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner."
The penultimate chapter of this man's novel takes place during Art Night at Benton College, where Gertrude Johnson and President Robbins get into a spat.  
Randall Jarrell