Question
This author’s wife Florence wrote a “reply” to one of his poems that ends by telling him, “please switch off the telephone.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this author whose poem “This is Just To Say” opens, “I have eaten / the plums / that were in / the icebox.”
ANSWER: William Carlos Williams
[10m] The poetic parody “Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams” was written by Kenneth Koch (“coke”), a member of this group of poets alongside the author of “Having a Coke with You.”
ANSWER: New York School (The author is Frank O’Hara.)
[10h] Williams’s poem “El Hombre” inspired “Nuances on a Theme by Williams,” a poem by this author. This author wrote that “the plum survives its poems” in a poem whose title character plans to travel from “Bordeaux to Yucatan, Havana next, / And then to Carolina.”
ANSWER: Wallace Stevens (The poem is “The Comedian as the Letter C.”)
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