Above the open vowel" while "ransacking Athens" and attempting to recall Rainer Maria Rilke's version of the Paul Valery poem "Palme".
In one of this author's final works, the titular piece of clothing creates a "world map" that calls to mind "Dead white males in malls. / Prayer breakfasts. Pay-phone sex"; that poem is called "Self Portrait in Tyvek Windbreaker". In another poem he describes putting together a jigsaw puzzle with his Alsatian governess, who he refers to as "Madamoiselle". In that poem, this author also describes how "the owlet umlaut peeps and hoots / Above the open vowel" while "ransacking Athens" and attempting to recall Rainer Maria Rilke's version of the Paul Valery poem "Palme". The first section of his best-known work begins with the pun, "Admittedly I err by undertaking / This in its present form", and that work goes on to envision W. H. Auden dictating his poems in the underworld and has a first part titled "The Book of (*) Ephraim". That most famous work was inspired by his partner, David Jackson, operating a Ouija board.  For 10 points, name this author of "Lost in Translation" and "The Changing Light at Sandover".
In one of this author's final works, the titular piece of clothing creates a "world map" that calls to mind "Dead white males in malls.
James Ingram {Merrill}