Round 6: 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 at the end of a numeralled collection by this poet that opens with “Body of a Woman.” This poet climbs the title “Heights” of a ruined city in a poem from a fifteen-canto epic chronicling the New World. (-5[1])This poet grieves a former lover in the last romantic poem of a collection, which opens by declaring “tonight I can (10[1]-5[1])write the saddest lines.” (10[1])For 10 points, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair is by what Chilean poet? ■END■ (10[3])

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