In one poem, this author described the suicide of a general, which led to a king's face "shone like a black sun in hell."
In one poem, this author described the suicide of a general, which led to a king's face "shone like a black sun in hell." In another poem, he surmised "And I thought that up on the moon no enemy could crawl up to me." Those two poems, "Dahomey" and "Somaliland" are found in his poetry collection about Africa, Tent. His plays include The Poisoned Tunic, and he wrote the seminal Russian essay The Anatomy of a Poem. He wrote about a man who walks on his friends graves, wondering "why can't I ask corpses about love?" in his "The Drunken Dervish," and this teacher of Osip (*) Mandelstam published the collection Pillar of Fire. For 10 points, name this husband of Anna Akhmatova, the founder of Acmeism. [Ike]
In one poem, this author described the suicide of a general, which led to a king's face "shone like a black sun in hell."
{Nikolai Gumiliev} [or {Gumiliov} or {Gumileff} or etc.]