A poem from this country was embroidered on a silk screen in a 29' x 29' grid, to which the word for “heart” was later added in the middle. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this country where “reversible poems” became popular because its logographic script made writing easier. Du Fu was a poet from this modern-day country.
ANSWER: China [or Republic of China; or People’s Republic of China; or Zhongguo]
[10h] This Chinese poet wrote an 841-character palindromic poem alternatively titled “Star Gauge” or “Picture of the Turning Sphere,” supposedly to convince her husband to return to her after taking another wife.
ANSWER: Su Hui [or Ruolan]
[10m] Michèle Métail collected Chinese reversible poems in a collection titled for “[these animals] Returning.” Mary Oliver titled a poem that begins, “You do not have to be good” for these animals.
ANSWER: wild geese [or Wild Geese Returning]
<Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford, World Literature>