A poem by this poet opens, “I have gone marking the atlas of your body / with crosses of fire.” The speaker describes “Dark river beds” and says, “I was lonely as a tunnel” in a poem by this author whose addressee is told, “when you surrender, you stretch out like the world.” This poet describes “burying lamps” in “deep solitude” in a poem about “Thinking, tangling shadows. ” In a poem in the same collection by this poet, which was translated by (*) W.S. Merwin, the speaker uses “‘The night is starry / and the stars are blue and shiver’” as an example of the title phrases. A line about the title figure’s “white hills, white thighs” opens this author’s poem “Body of a Woman.” In a poem by this author, the speaker states, “Love is so short, forgetting is so long” and repeats, “Tonight I can write the saddest lines.” For 10 points, name this Chilean poet of Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair. ■END■
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| 2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC | 10/05/2024 | Y | 8 | 100% | 63% | 0% | 70.13 |
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| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida | 12/10/2024 | Y | 1 | 100% | 100% | 0% | 52.00 |
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| Joy An | Harvard | MIT | 19 | 15 |
| Victor Xu | Toronto D | Waterloo B | 19 | 15 |
| Gus Redding | Imperial A | Sheffield B | 19 | 15 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto B | Waterloo C | 19 | 15 |
| Bhaskar Moorthy | Four Generalists in Search of a Power | Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky | 19 | 15 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State University A | South Dakota School of Mines | 21 | 15 |
| Henry Bylinowski | Auburn 2026 | mongeese | 22 | 15 |
| Jay Kim | Chicago B | WashU Bulbasaur | 22 | -5 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pittsburgh | Michigan D | 33 | 15 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois B | Missouri | 33 | 15 |
| Fern Fang | evil women enjoyers | Mahjonng Masters | 36 | 15 |
| Pradyumna Krishna | MSJ | Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team | 38 | 15 |
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| Jim Fan | Master and Margaritaville | Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race | 52 | 15 |
| Hayden Prather | Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again | Too much from you lately | 52 | 15 |
| David Latimer | Imperial B | Sheffield A | 52 | -5 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto C | Mac A | 55 | 15 |
| Sheehan Banka | Quatumvirate | we need new names | 60 | -5 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | McGill B | 63 | 15 |
| William Bao | Illinois Orange | Notre Dame + Epic Games | 65 | 15 |
| Jared He | Waterloo A | Ottawa A | 67 | 15 |
| Kevin Zheng | Michigan A | Ohio State D | 84 | 10 |
| Shishir Bharadwaj | Lexington | RIT | 84 | 10 |
| Andy Yu | Maryland A | Haverford B | 84 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Free Agents 1 | Gruh | 84 | 10 |
| Noah Chin | Even in Blacksburg There I Am | Somehow Paula Deen Returned | 84 | 10 |
| Liam Starnes | Chicago A | Truman State | 84 | -5 |
| Michael Hunding | Illinois A | Illinois C | 84 | 10 |
| Anderson Wang | Art of Premature Signaling | UCLA B | 84 | 10 |
| Cole Hennessy | Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison | Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses | 84 | 10 |
| Adsayan Ganesh | Warwick B | Warwick A | 84 | -5 |
| Guy Indorante | Iowa State | SIUE | 87 | 10 |
| Vivian Malouf | girl 15 whale i mean they | Claremont A | 97 | 10 |
| Andy Huff | LSE | Cambridge | 98 | 10 |
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Ohio State A | 99 | 10 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | CWRU | 99 | 10 |
| Jason Cheng | P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B | Caltech | 99 | 10 |
| Eric Mukherjee | Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion | Goober Gang | 102 | 10 |
| Lovel Hearn | Edinburgh | Birmingham | 102 | 10 |
| Ben Wismath | Toronto A | Toronto E | 104 | 10 |
| Jack van Nostrand | Toronto Metropolitan | Guelph | 114 | 10 |
| Aditya Shivaswamy | Johns Hopkins A | George Mason A | 116 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Warwick C | 116 | 10 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton | Washington Connections | 117 | 10 |
| Shahar Schwartz | Egypt Airlines Haters | 2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles | 119 | 10 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown | Catholic University of America | 120 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | UBC | McGill A | 120 | 10 |
| Alex Salcido | UCSB | Claremont B | 124 | 10 |
| Kayla Drajpuch | Brandeis | BU | 124 | 10 |
| Nate Kang | NYU B | George Washington | 137 | 10 |
| John John Groger | WashU Charmander | WashU Squirtle | 143 | 10 |
| Billy Beyer | Billy's Bastion | Keeping Up With the Cardassians | 148 | 10 |
| Jacob Goodson | Ohio State B | Michigan C | 150 | -5 |
| Philip Yao | Brown | Belmont | 150 | 10 |
| Vikshar Athreya | Rutgers | NYU C | 150 | 10 |
| Freddie O’Hara | UCLA A | UCSD | 150 | 10 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | UW A | Arizona State University B | 150 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta | UW B | 150 | 10 |
| Daniel Carlton | George Mason B | Johns Hopkins B | 157 | 10 |
| Jacob Price | Sheffield A | Imperial B | 157 | 10 |
| Eoin Neale | Lancaster + Sheffield C | Sheffield C | 157 | 10 |
| Pranet Sirikonda | Ohio State C | Oberlin | 161 | 10 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Warwick B | 161 | 10 |
| Arav Kaushik | we need new names | Quatumvirate | 164 | 10 |
| Nathan Ouyang | Michigan C | Ohio State B | 167 | 10 |
| Fred Garvey | Truman State | Chicago A | 167 | 10 |
| Neal Joshi | WashU Bulbasaur | Chicago B | 167 | 10 |