Question

The speaker of a poem titled for this place begins, “Viciousness in the kitchen! / The potatoes hiss” (15[1])and refuses to drown her kittens; that poem is by Sylvia Plath. This title place is called a “land of hot and languorous nights” in a poem that, along with “The Vampire’s Metamorphoses” and “Lethe,” was one of six to be censored from initial publication (15[1]-5[1])in the collection it appears in. A poet from this island (15[1])feels “greener than grass” and “thin (15[1])/ fire racing (15[1])under (15[1])skin” (15[2])in a poem that begins (15[1])(*) “He seems to (10[1])me equal (10[1])to the gods.” (10[1])The lyric poet (10[1])Alcaeus lived on this island, (10[1])which is home to an author (10[1])who pleads with a “deathless” deity “of the spangled mind” in Anne Carson’s (10[1])translation (10[2])If Not, Winter. (10[1])For 10 points, name this Greek island (10[3])home to Sappho, (10[3])which inspired a term for gay women. ■END■

ANSWER: Lesbos [prompt on Greece] (The second sentence refers to Charles Baudelaire’s “Lesbos.”)
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