Another of his poems begins with an image of eyes opening "to a cry of pulleys" upon waking and seeing the morning air "all awash with angels.
This poet compared the use of echolocation to veer around obstacles in a dark cave to the play of human intellect in a poem comparing the mind to a bat. He compared werewolves to people "at high windows" who bring "monsters into the city" and "navies fed to the fish in the dark unbridled waters" in his poem "Beasts." Another of his poems begins with an image of eyes opening "to a cry of pulleys" upon waking and seeing the morning air "all awash with angels." This poet wrote the lyrics for the songs "Make Our Garden Grow" and "Glitter and Be Gay" in Leonard Bernstein's operetta Candide. He first gained renown for his poetry collections The Beautiful Changes and Ceremony, and spent over forty years translating the comedies of Moliere into English verse. For 10 points, name this American poet of "Advice to a Prophet" and "Love Calls Us to the Things of This World."
This poet compared the use of echolocation to veer around obstacles in a dark cave to the play of human intellect in a poem comparing the mind to a bat.
Richard Purdy Wilbur