Round 2: 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.” (10[1])The memory of a (10[1])“deserted one” is likened to the sea at the end of a numeralled collection by this poet that opens with “Body of a Woman.” This poet (10[2])climbs the title (10[1])“Heights” of a ruined city (10[1])in a poem from a fifteen-canto epic chronicling (-5[2])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 saddest (10[1])lines.” For 10 points, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (10[1])is by what Chilean poet? ■END■ (10[2])

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