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

ANSWER: William Carlos Williams
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