One of this author's poems ends with the couplet "Only sound needs echo and dreads its lack /
One of this author's poems ends with the couplet "Only sound needs echo and dreads its lack / A glance is accustomed to no glance back." The speaker of one poem by this author sees "wild mares carousing in tall sedge," "steam dreadnoughts or cruisers," and the "expanse grow[ing] blue like lace underwear" as he travels eastward on a globe. This poet parodied the opening of Auden's "In Memory of W.B. Yeats" by starting an elegy with the line "He died in January, the beginning of the year." This poet asked "what is space anyway if not the body's absence at every given point?" in a poem explaining that the title woman is older than her sister Clio. This poet wrote "Verses on the Death of T.S. Eliot" and the collection To Urania. Sartre, Yevtushenko, and his mentor Anna Akhmatova succeeded in forcing the commutation of this poet's imprisonment in Siberia for "social parasitism." For 10 points, name this author of "Elegy for John Donne," who served as the U.S. Poet Laureate after emigrating from Russia.
One of this author's poems ends with the couplet "Only sound needs echo and dreads its lack /
Joseph Brodsky