Question

Christopher Maurer’s The Complete Perfectionist collects aphorisms by this poet, who dedicated his work to the “immense minority.” The lines “Nothing happens? Or has everything happened, / and are we standing now, quietly, in the new life?” end this poet’s “Oceans.” This poet says he is “this one / walking beside me whom I do not see” in Robert Bly’s translation of his enigmatic poem “I am not I.” (10[2])This poet published Diary of a Newlywed Poet after marrying Zenobia Camprubí, (10[2])a noted (10[1])translator of Rabindranath Tagore. This advocate of “pure” or “naked poetry” (10[1])is best-known globally for an elegiac prose poem (-5[1])in which “El Loco” roams his rural Andalusian hometown of Moguer (“moh-GAIR”) with a silver-colored companion (10[1])“so soft to the touch that he (10[1])might (10[2])be (10[1])said to be made (10[1])of cotton.” (10[1])For 10 points, what poet wrote of a donkey in his (10[1])book (10[1])Platero (10[2])y (10[1])yo ■END■ (0[6])

ANSWER: Juan Ramón Jiménez (“hee-MEH-ness”) [or Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón]
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Kevin WangGeorgia TechIowa State11610
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