Question

The speaker of a Mina Loy poem titled for this action claims, “The business of the bland sun / has no affair with me” and says, “I am the centre / Of a circle.” A collection (15[1])titled for this action (15[1])closes with the advice, “When the men come, set yourself on fire.” In a poetry collection (15[1])titled for this action, the immigrant speaker claims, “No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark” in the poem “Conversations About Home.” A Warsan Shire chapbook is titled (15[1])(*) Teaching My Mother How to do this action. (-5[2])This (10[1])action (-5[1])is decried at the end of a poem that describes “fools in (10[1])old-style hats and coats” (10[1]-5[1])and mourns how “Man hands on (10[1])misery to man (10[1]-5[1])/ It deepens (10[2])like a coastal shelf.” (10[1])The opening line of “The Munich Mannequins” claims “Perfection is terrible” because it cannot (10[1])do this action. (10[1])For 10 points, the ending of “This Be The Verse” (10[1])advises you to “Get (10[1])out as early as you can” and don’t do what action? (10[1])■END■ (10[3]0[5])

ANSWER: giving birth [accept childbirth or parturition or having kids or equivalents; accept Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth; prompt on teaching my mother until read; reject “pregnancy”] (The first poem is Mina Loy’s “Parturition.”)
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Matt JacksonChicago A Minus MinusCharlotte Mewing to get that chiseled farmer’s bride jawline3515
Arya KarthikSandmännchen im HelikopterchamPAIN and cornHELL in Columbia3915
Amogh KulkarniThe Aum-Wein Drinchard by Amogh Tutuolaprotobowling for soup5515
Jordan BrownsteinJinAh and Jordan from Wikiquizboy's jitches (ft. DMA)8715
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Emmett LauriemnemonistsNJ TRANSit (and bobby i guess)95-5
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Urbas EkkaTunks et al.The Present King of James is Bald97-5
LouNoli Me TangerineNobodaddy but you10910
Jaimie CarlsonLabour's Lost LoversTriple Round Robin Lovers11310
Henry CafaroChicago BBHSU113-5
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King VidorHouston Junior CollegeFree-ish Agents12210
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Caleb KendrickJJarylandbruh14310
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Danny PeelenThe Present King of James is BaldTunks et al.15610
Eric GunterUNC BUNC A16010
Ben Dahlmalcolm in the middlemarch (Purdue 1)Michigan17110
Alex JiangJason LoversClark A1720
Jeffrey FungJeffrey and DahmersClark B1720
Will PulvinoClark AJason Lovers1720
Maeve MeehanClark BJeffrey and Dahmers1720
Matt BollingerBHSUChicago B17210
Jeremy CummingsOh the Missouri>:317210
Darren PetrosinoParden the InterruptionNaocissus and Geoldmond by Hermandrew Hesse17210
Fierro GreyNJ TRANSit (and bobby i guess)mnemonists1720