Wallace Stevens - 2024 ACF Winter

Question

In this author’s play Three Travelers Watch a Sunrise, one of the Three Chinese says, “All you need, / To find poetry, / Is to look for it with a lantern.” For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this author who wrote about the poet Claire Dupray in his play Bowl, Cat, and Broomstick. This author described the path of the title creature in “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.”

ANSWER: Wallace Stevens

[10m] In Three Travelers Watch a Sunrise, the Second Chinese says that a court “never knew” flawed versions of these objects. Stevens wrote, “It took dominion everywhere” in an “Anecdote of” one of these objects.

ANSWER: jars [accept “Anecdote of the Jar”]

[10h] Stevens’s play Bowl, Cat, and Broomstick is collected in The Palm at the End of the Mind, a title this author borrowed for an essay about the Sentinelese. Reno learns to race motorcycles in this author’s novel The Flamethrowers.

ANSWER: Rachel Kushner

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley	2024-11-16	Y	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson	2024-11-16	Y	8	7.50	38%	38%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	9	13.33	78%	44%	11%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	7	12.86	57%	71%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	8	11.25	75%	38%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at UBC	2024-11-16	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	11	8.18	73%	9%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis	2024-11-16	Y	10	9.00	60%	30%	0%

Data


Berkeley A	Berkeley B	10	10	10	30
Stanford A	Stanford L	10	10	0	20
Berkeley C	Stanford M	10	10	0	20
Georgia A	Alabama A	0	0	0	0
Georgia Tech D	Auburn A	10	10	0	20
Tennesse B	Clemson A	0	0	0	0
Auburn C	Emory A	0	0	0	0
Georgia Tech E	Georgia Tech B	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech F	Auburn B	0	0	0	0
Emory B	South Carolina A	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech C	Tusculum A	0	0	0	0
UIUC B	Indiana B	10	10	0	20
Purdue B	Miami	10	0	0	10
UIUC C	Northwestern A	10	10	0	20
Indiana A	Notre Dame	10	0	10	20
WashU B	Purdue A	10	10	0	20
UChicago A	Purdue C	10	10	0	20
WashU D	Purdue D	0	0	0	0
SIUE A	UChicago B	10	0	0	10
UIUC D	WashU C	0	0	0	0
CWRU A (UG)	CWRU C (UG)	0	10	0	10
OSU C	Kenyon A	10	10	0	20
Michigan State A	Michigan A	10	10	0	20
Michigan B	CWRU D (DII)	10	10	0	20
Michigan State C (UG)	Michigan C (UG)	0	0	0	0
CWRU B (UG)	Michigan D (DII)	0	0	0	0
Pitt A	Ohio State A (UG)	10	10	0	20
Texas B	Arkansas	10	10	0	20
Vassar A	Central Oklahoma	10	0	0	10
Texas A	Colorado College	10	10	0	20
Texas D	Iowa	0	0	0	0
NYU B	McGill E	0	0	0	0
Mississippi State	Missouri	10	10	0	20
Oregon State	Ole Miss	10	0	0	10
Texas C	NYU A	10	0	0	10
Alberta	UW B	10	10	0	20
SFU	UBC B	10	10	0	20
UW A	UBC A	10	0	0	10
Imperial A	Cambridge A	0	0	0	0
Bristol A	Cambridge B	10	0	0	10
LSE A	Cambridge C	10	10	0	20
Cam D	Durham A	10	0	0	10
Bristol B	Edinburgh	0	0	0	0
Imperial B	Oxford B	10	0	0	10
Manchester	Oxford A	10	0	0	10
Birmingham	Southampton A	0	0	0	0
Vanderbilt	LSE B	10	0	0	10
Warwick A	Southampton B	10	0	0	10
Durham B	Warwick B	10	0	0	10
A Brandeis Supreme	Clark A	10	0	0	10
Amherst A	Boston University A	10	10	0	20
Bowdoin B	Diamond Brandeis	0	0	0	0
Yale C	Brandeises Brew	0	0	0	0
MIT A	Brown A	10	10	0	20
Yale A	Carabrandeis	10	10	0	20
Northeastern A	Harvard A	0	0	0	0
Tufts A	Tufts B	0	0	0	0
Williams A	Bowdoin A	10	0	0	10
Yale B	Boston University B	10	0	0	10