This poet of "Mr. Edwards and the Spider" wrote that "a savage servility / slides by on grease" in a poem about a monument that "sticks like a fishbone" in the throat of Boston.
This poet called Paris "our black classic, breaking up / Like killer kings on an Etruscan cup" in "Beyond the Alps." This poet asked Josiah Hawley to picture himself "cast / into a [burning] brick-kiln" in a poem whose final line declares "This is the Black Widow, death." The song "Love, O careless Love" causes this author to assert "I myself am hell" in a poem he dedicated to Elizabeth Bishop. This poet of "Mr. Edwards and the Spider" wrote that "a savage servility / slides by on grease" in a poem about a monument that "sticks like a fishbone" in the throat of Boston. For 10 points, name this American author of the collection Life Studies and the poems "Skunk Hour" and "For the Union Dead."
This poet called Paris "our black classic, breaking up / Like killer kings on an Etruscan cup" in "Beyond the Alps."
Robert Lowell