This book juxtaposes a human-faced sculpture of a caribou with a prose poem about a therapist who forgot about her appointment with the speaker. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this book, a poem from which describes the “dissolving blues of metaphor” and says that “each body is a strange beach.” Claudia Rankine (“RANK-in”) explores race in this “American Lyric.”
ANSWER: Citizen [or Citizen: An American Lyric]
[10e] Citizen discusses a photo of a player in this sport stuffing her outfit with towels. An academy for this sport in Enfield appears in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest.
ANSWER: tennis [accept Enfield Tennis Academy]
[10h] Citizen examines Zinedine Zidane’s (“zee-DAHN’s”) headbutt of Marco Materazzi in a section titled for three words, which also appear as a stenciled watermark. Give any of those words, which describe the French national soccer team.
ANSWER: “Black-Blanc-Beur” [or “Black-Blanc-Beur”; or “Black-Blanc-Beur”] (The words are taken from a slogan for French ethnic diversity, with “beur” referring to French Arabs in verlan slang.)
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