This author describes goats "leaping up the cliffs / among the fog-soaked weeds and butter-and-eggs" in a poem that calls The Seven Wonders of the World "tired / and a touch familiar".
This author describes goats "leaping up the cliffs / among the fog-soaked weeds and butter-and-eggs" in a poem that calls The Seven Wonders of the World "tired / and a touch familiar". This author describes objects that are hard to tell apart from the stars or from Venus and Mars in a poem that concludes with the image of "a weak mailed fist / clenched ignorant against the sky". One poem by this author commands the reader to "Accept the fluster / of (*) lost door keys, the hour badly spent." This poet described an owl's nest burning after an illegal fire balloon crashes into it. One poem by this author of "Over 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance" describes a creature whose "brown skin hung in strips / like ancient wallpaper" and has five hooks in its mouth. She declared: "The art of losing isn't hard to master" in her villanelle "One Art". For 10 points, name this 20th-century American poet of "The Armadillo" and "The Fish".
This author describes goats "leaping up the cliffs / among the fog-soaked weeds and butter-and-eggs" in a poem that calls The Seven Wonders of the World "tired / and a touch familiar".
Elizabeth Bishop