In the frame story of Dionne Brand’s poetry collection The Blue Clerk, the title character inspects bales of these pages “on a wharf somewhere.” For 10 points each:
[10e] What term refers to a left-hand page or the back of a single leaf, in contrast to the recto? It names a left-wing publishing house whose logo is a stylized “V.”
ANSWER: verso
[10h] Dionne Brand’s “Verso 55,” which depicts the speaker talking to “gods” at this place, was quoted by Christina Sharpe to illustrate the concept of “wake work.” Another of Brand’s collection is titled for a “map” to this place.
ANSWER: Door of No Return [accept House of Slaves or Gorée Island; accept Map to the Door of No Return; prompt on doors]
[10m] Another Canadian poet, Jordan Abel, left the versos blank in his collection A Place of Scraps, which applies this technique to Marius Barbeau’s work on totem poles. Name or describe this technique, which Tom Philips used for A Humument (“HYOOM-yoo-ment”).
ANSWER: erasure poetry [or blackout poetry; accept descriptions of drawing, painting, collage, collaging over, blacking out, crossing out, or covering up an existing book; prompt on found poetry, treated novel, or altered book]
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