Packet 6: Tossup 7

This author used lines from a copy of The Pocket Book of Verse found in an outhouse in poems that quote Aubrey Beardsley’s claim “Beauty is difficult.” A visit to this author inspired a poem that describes “a sailor / wearing the watch / that tells the time / of the honored man.” Richard Avedon photographed this poet squinting with an open shirt shortly after he left a location described in a reworking (10[1])of “The House that Jack Built” by Elizabeth Bishop. (10[3])This poet wrote “What thou lovest well remains, / the rest is dross” in a collection that won the first and only Bollingen Prize (10[1])to be awarded (10[2])by (10[1])the Library (-5[1])of Congress. (10[1])While incarcerated (10[1])at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, (10[1])this (10[2])poet wrote the section (10[1])“Rock-Drill” (10[3])for an (10[2])Odyssey-inspired (10[1])collection (10[1])that rails against “usura” (10[1])(“oo-ZOO-ra”). For 10 points, what fascist collaborator wrote (10[1])The Cantos? (10[1])■END■

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