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Edith Heal’s informal conversations with this author and his wife make up the book I Wanted to Write a Poem. This author dedicated the poem “The Crimson Cyclamen” to an artist who adapted a poem by this inventor of triadic-line poetry about seeing an object “Among the rain / and lights” on “a red / firetruck.” This author, whose (10[1])poem “The Great Figure” inspired Charles Demuth’s painting (10[1])I Saw (10[1])the Figure Five in Gold, included a poem set “By the road to the contagious hospital” in his collection Spring (10[1])and All. (10[1])This poet wrote about an object “glazed with rain / water (10[1]-5[1])/ beside the white / chickens.” The speaker of a poem by this author says, “I have eaten / the plums / that were in / the icebox.” For 10 points, name this Imagist poet of “The Red Wheelbarrow” and “This is Just to Say.” ■END■ (10[1]0[3])

ANSWER: William Carlos Williams
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