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