A series of poems describes members of this profession as frozen “in the great / refrigerator of Los Angeles” and “lost in the dark city.” For 10 points each:
[10m] What profession titles a novel that ends with the narrator being disappointed by a poet’s notebooks after taking a road trip to the Sonora Desert with the prostitute Lupe?
ANSWER: detectives [accept The Savage Detectives or Los detectives salvajes; accept “The Lost Detectives” or “Los detectives perdidos”; accept “The Frozen Detectives” or “Los detectives helados”; prompt on private investigators or private eyes or P.I.s]
[10e] “The Frozen Detectives” is by this Chilean author, who fictionalized himself and Mario Santiago Papasquiaro as Visceral Realist poets in his novel The Savage Detectives.
ANSWER: Roberto Bolaño [or Roberto Bolaño Ávalos]
[10h] Papasquiaro inspired the infrarealists with a collection named for this animal’s “howl.” “The new Poetry” is conceived under this animal in a poem that begins, “It happened in a divine moment for the human species.”
ANSWER: swans [accept “El Cisne”; accept Swan’s Howl or Aullido de cisne; prompt on birds or avians] (The second poem is by Rubén Darío.)
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