Question

A poem titled for these objects likely borrowed from a Kóstas Ouránis line about an “autumn afternoon,” according to a Donald Justice note in his “Variations on a Text by” that poem’s author. A Jean de Ruysbroeck epigraph prefaces a prose poem titled for an object of this kind, which opens, “the bad light is near and nothing is real.” The (15[1])speaker of a poem titled for these objects (15[1])is beaten with a club and rope while observed by (15[1])“Thursday days” and “humerus bones.” A medieval practice involving one of these objects titles an (*) Alejandra Pizarnik collection. (10[6])Black and white (10[2])examples (10[2])of these objects (10[1])title a César Vallejo poem (-5[1])that predicts “I will die in Paris with a rainstorm.” A poem titled for an object of this kind describes a river that “advances (10[1])and retreats, goes roundabout, (10[2])/ arriving forever.” For 10 points, an Octavio Paz poem is titled for the “Sun” (10[1])variety (10[1])of what object? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: stones [or piedras; accept Extracting the Stone of Madness or Extracción de la piedra de locura; accept “Black Stone on a White Stone” or “Black Stone Lying on a White Stone” or “Piedra negra sobre una piedra blanca”; accept “Sunstone” or “Piedra del sol”]
<Literature - World Literature - Poetry>
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Michael HundiingWho is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus?Music to Help You Stop Smoking9610
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Anderson WangA is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairsnumber of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku9910
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Michael WuGrzegorz BrzęczyszczykiewiczCambridge15110
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