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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 (10[2])poetry about seeing an object “Among the rain / and (10[1])lights” on (-5[1])“a red / firetruck.” (10[2])This author, whose poem “The Great Figure” (10[1])inspired Charles Demuth’s (-5[1])painting I Saw the (10[1])Figure Five in Gold, included a poem set “By the road to the contagious hospital” in his collection Spring and All. (10[2])This poet (10[1])wrote about an object “glazed with rain (10[1])/ water (10[2])/ 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 (10[1])“This is Just to Say.” ■END■

ANSWER: William Carlos Williams
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