Question

This is the first name of a poet who italicized dialogue in lines like “I say I want you inside me and you split me open with a knife” in “Wishbone,” a poem from his 2004 collection Crush. (15[1])An author with this first name asked a poem’s addressee to “spare us all word of the weapons” when “you come, as soon as you must, to the streets of our city.” A poet with this first name noted that the horrors of war do not “rouse God to relent” in a poem that asks “was man made (*) stupid to see his own stupidity?” The author of “The Fury of Aerial Bombardment” shares this first name with the poet of “Advice to a Prophet,” who wrote lyrics for Leonard Bernstein's Candide and translated many Molière plays. (-5[1])For 10 points, give the first name of those poets, surnamed Siken, Eberhart, and Wilbur. (10[1])■END■ (0[2])

ANSWER: Richard [accept Richard Siken or Richard Ghormley Eberhart or Richard Wilbur]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Caroline Maonats is supposed to mean you all have gone softOlmo (Bonus) Bagelry3715
Rahul KeyalWatching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Againmeet the new weird, same as the old weird133-5
Juliet Mayermeet the new weird, same as the old weirdWatching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Again14810
Daniel SheinbergUG Championship Players (and Mazin)Columbia B1490
Noah SheidlowerColumbia BUG Championship Players (and Mazin)1490

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