Question
In his poem responding to American soldiers in Iceland who killed a hundred whales, Michael McClure invokes this artist before lamenting the “Cursed Christ of mammals.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this artist. A poem claims that in this artist’s work, there are people who “writhe upon the page / in a veritable rage / of adversity” and that “Only the landscape is changed.”
ANSWER: Francisco de Goya [or Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes; accept “In Goya’s Greatest Scenes We Seem to See”]
[10m] Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s poem “In Goya’s Greatest Scenes We Seem to See” ends with “strange license plates / and engines / that devour” this word. This word titles a poem that declares, “Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb.”
ANSWER: America [reject synonyms]
[10e] McClure read “For the Death of 100 Whales” at the Six Gallery Reading, where Allen Ginsberg read this long poem that Ferlinghetti faced an obscenity trial for publishing.
ANSWER: “Howl”
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Nationals | 04/22/2023 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| North Carolina A | Indiana A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |