Question

This poem features early instances of its author’s experiments with typography, such as the capitalization of words like “MEMORIES” and “RENDER.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this poem whose speaker envisions Venus walking on the “lava-flesh” of Mount Etna. The speaker of this poem wakes up from a nap and proclaims he would “perpetuate” two nymphs.
ANSWER: Afternoon of a Faun” [or “L'Après-Midi d’un Faune”]
[10e] The “Afternoon of a Faun” was written by this difficult French poet of “A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance.”
ANSWER: Stéphane Mallarmé
[10h] Several Mallarmé poems, such as “Another Fan,” are imaginative odes to these objects. Mallarmé’s poem “Sea Breeze” opens, “The flesh is sad, alas!” before expressing regret about these objects.
ANSWER: books [or livres]
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Berkeley A[Insert Lawyer Joke Here]010010
Maryland AFan-tastic Negs and Where to Find Them010010
Rutgers DiasporaMaryland B+010010
The Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 NegsGlass Onyen: A Knives Out Mystery1010020
Amartya Senpai Notice MeIllinois1010020
Brownstein et al.Mojo Shojo10101030
Chicago AOSU010010
WUSTLMichigan010010
NorthwesternEpic Games010010
Chicago B+Purdue University Fightin' Hadrien Davids010010
Cornell B-Cornell C++010010
Dr. Christopher Manners, MD – Samarra, IraqRollin in from Sturgis, The Cheyne Gang0000
Hutto HipposThe Enrique Trastamara Military Academy B0101020
Magisters LudiBroken Imperial Nomads010010
Buzzers KaramazovOxford Hornets1010020
Stanford AIt's Joever1010020
The Passion According to C.H.The Vulture's Guide to Buzz010010
UG Championship Players (and Mazin)Columbia B10101030
Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Againmeet the new weird, same as the old weird010010
nats is supposed to mean you all have gone softOlmo (Bonus) Bagelry10101030
Milan et al.Neg 5! Playing Quizbowl, Liddy Style1010020