This author dithers over whether to purchase a Christmas tree in a poetic record of his thoughts during December 1963, Tape for the Turn of the Year. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this American poet whose work generously employed colons. A book-length poem by this author was inspired by the “secularized sacred rite” he observed while driving past a landfill in Florida.
ANSWER: A. R. Ammons [or Archie Ammons; or Archibald Randolph Ammons] (The poem is Garbage.)
[10e] Harold Bloom’s monograph The Ringers in the Tower praises Ammons for creating “alternate realities” like this poet. This poet’s collection Harmonium includes “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.”
ANSWER: Wallace Stevens
[10m] Ammons wrote Tape for the Turn of the Year on a roll of tape used for one of these objects. Mr. Zero dies and is sent to the Elysian Fields in an Elmer Rice play titled for one of these objects.
ANSWER: adding machines [accept The Adding Machine; prompt on calculators or calculating machines or machines]
<HG, American Literature>