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Robert Frost accused this author of writing too much about “bric-a-brac.” This author describes “Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair” in a poem that ends with pigeons descending “on extended wings.” A man riding “over Connecticut” fears “the shadow of his equipage” in a poem by this author of “Sunday Morning.” This (-5[1])author asks (10[1])why golden versions of the title figures are imagined by the “Thin men of Haddam” (10[1])in a poem that opens “Among twenty (10[1])snowy mountains.” Another poem by this author commands the reader to “call the roller of big cigars.” For 10 points, (-5[1])name this American poet of (10[1])“Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” and “The Emperor of Ice Cream.” ■END■ (0[3])

ANSWER: Wallace Stevens
<Nebraska C, American Literature>
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