Round 4: Tossup 5

This poet is invaded by night “with her powerful army” in a poem that recalls being armed for the “hour of revenge.” A poem by this author asks a “brother” in the “bedrock depths” to “rise up in birth with me.” The memory of a “deserted one” is likened to the sea (10[1])at the end of a numeralled collection by this poet that opens with “Body of a Woman.” This poet (10[1])climbs (10[1])the title “Heights” of a ruined (10[1])city in a poem from a fifteen-canto epic chronicling the New World. This poet grieves a former lover in the last romantic poem of a collection, which opens by declaring “tonight I can write the (10[1])saddest (10[1])lines.” For 10 points, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair is by what Chilean poet? (10[1])■END■ (10[2])

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