Question

A visit to this author’s childhood bedroom inspires the speaker of a poem by him to recall a “red, satyr-thighed Irish setter” named Michael. In a poem by this author, a man whose speech is stylized in all caps claims to have “LOVED THE MONSTERS NEPHEW CALIGULA” and says Tiberius is in “STAGE THREE.” In the last of several parentheticals in a poem by this author, the speaker wanders “through the ruin of S wondering at the peacefulness.” The “French hopes” and “German fears” of a woman who had been “a widow since Verdun” are relayed to the speaker of a poem by this author about the completion of a jigsaw puzzle. This author and his partner David Jackson collaborated on a long poem that includes “The Book of Ephraim” and is based on their ouija board sessions. For 10 points, (10[1])name this American poet of “Lost in Translation” and The Changing Light at Sandover. ■END■

ANSWER: James Merrill [or James Ingram Merrill] (The first poem is “Broken at Home.”)
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Henry LytleWUSTL BPenn A14110

Summary

2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y1100%0%0%141.00