Packet 5: Tossup 6

This author’s translations of the poet Kemine (“keh-MEE-neh”) led to his romance with an older woman, who included a line from this author’s poem “The Table is Set for Six” as the epigraph to the last poem she wrote before her 1941 suicide by hanging. Philip Metres’s translations of this author collected in I Burned at the Feast includes the poem “Life, Life,” which a film accompanies with newsreel footage of an army crossing a lake during a border conflict. (15[1]-5[1])Within a film’s narrative, a poem by this real-life author that opens, “now summer is gone” and includes the refrain (15[1])“there has to be more” is said to have been written by the protagonist’s dead brother. This author (*) narrates his poetry (-5[1])in the voiceover to a 1975 film featuring a shot (-5[1])in which a woman (-5[1])levitates over a bed. (10[1]-5[1])The book Sculpting in Time (10[1]-5[1])discusses (-5[1])this author’s poetry, including one read in a film by Porcupine’s brother in the Zone. For 10 points, name (-5[1])this author whose poetry is read in his son’s films Mirror and Stalker. ■END■ (0[10])

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