This is the first title noun in a poem whose last section adapts part of Christopher Columbus’s diary, and whose speaker thinks of her Soviet ballet teacher while braving a snowstorm to bring a leotard to her daughter. This is the first title noun of a Pulitzer-winning book that selects poems from the collections Materialism and Region of Unlikeness. A series of poems titled for these events ends with a poem that says, “My daughter’s heavier. Light leaves are flying,” and opens with a poem whose speaker wonders how the main character “pried / open for all the world to see, survived.” The declaration “Life, friends, is boring” appears in that 385-poem series titled for these events, in which a character uses “blackface” dialect to address “Mr. Bones.” For 10 points, “Huffy Henry” appears in what kind of “songs” written by John Berryman? ■END■
ANSWER: dreams [accept “The Dream of the Unified Field” or The Dream Songs or 77 Dream Songs or His Toy, His Dream, His Rest]
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