The speaker of a poem about one of these people who died of AIDS describes moments when she glimpsed herself in a store window and felt “a cherishing so deep” for herself that it left her speechless. That poem is Marie Howe’s “What the Living Do.” A poetic book about one of these people captions an image of red paint with an instruction to “begin with the blush.” That book about one of these people includes xeroxed dictionary definitions for words like indigne (“in-DIG-nay”) and gentes (“GHEN-taze”). Big Jim Evans calls the death of a person with this relation to the poet “a hard blow” in a poem that describes a mother’s “angry tearless sighs.” Both Anne Carson’s accordion book Nox and the Catullus poem it interpolates are elegies for these relatives. For 10 points, the death of what kind of family member inspired the image of a “four-foot box” in Seamus Heaney’s “Mid-Term Break”? ■END■
ANSWER: brothers [prompt on siblings, relatives, family members, kin, or equivalents until “relatives” is read; reject “children”]
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