This poet’s biographer Willard Spiegelman wondered “who is this person?” after reading a poem by her, which was among its 63-year-old author’s first published works. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this late-blooming American poet known for her exuberant poems from collections like What the Light Was Like. The title bird comes “glancing like an arrow through landscapes of untended memory” in her poem “The Kingfisher.”
ANSWER: Amy Clampitt
[10m] People at one of these places heard “through headphones of a separating panic” in “The Kingfisher.” The speaker demands “change me!” at the end of a Randall Jarrell poem titled for a “woman” at one of these places.
ANSWER: zoos [accept the Bronx Zoo or “The Woman at the Washington Zoo”]
[10e] Part of Clampitt’s poem titled for this substance reads “ Opacity opens up rooms, a showcase for the hueless moonflower corolla.” A Carl Sandburg poem says this stuff “comes on little cat feet.”
ANSWER: fog (Both poems are called “Fog.”)
<S, American Literature>