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A poet from this country described a “choleric light birthed from my insomnia” in a poem that ends “All night I ask you why. All night I tell you [emphasize] no.” In another poem by an author from this country, Judah León (“lay-OWN”) creates a “spacey offspring” with “eyes less human than doglike.” The speaker of a poem from this country requests a nurse to “set a lamp at my (10[1])headboard; a constellation; whatever you like” before saying “if he telephones again tell him not (-5[1])to keep trying for I have left.” This country was the birthplace of the poet of the collection Extracting the Stone of (10[1])Madness (10[6]-5[1])and the (10[1])adopted home (10[1])of a Swiss-born poet who tells a lover “pretend I’m white as snow” and “pretend (-5[1])I’m chaste” in her poem “You Want (10[1])Me White.” (10[2])Alejandra (10[1])Pizarnik (“ah-leh-HAHN-drah pee-SAR-neek”) and Alfonsina (10[1])Storni wrote in this country, whose payada (“pah-YAH-dah”) ballads influenced an epic poem by José Hernández. (10[2])For 10 points, name this country whose national epic is Martín Fierro ■END■ (10[3])

ANSWER: Argentina [or Argentine Republic or República Argentina] (The first sentence refers to “[All night I hear the noise of water sobbing.]” by Alejandra Pizarnik. The second sentence refers to “The Golem” by Jorge Luis Borges. The third sentence refers to “I Am Going to Sleep” by Alfonsina Storni.)
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y20100%0%15%125.20

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Tracy MirkinFlorida AIndiana A10610
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Mazin OmerHarvard APenn A106-5
Alex PijanowskiPurdue AToronto A10610
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Raymond WangCornell AIowa State A10610
Arya KarthikGeorgia Tech AFlorida B10810
Tim MorrisonStanford AClaremont A11010
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Anuttam RamjiUC Berkeley BYale A13210
Caleb KendrickMaryland AVanderbilt A13410
Walter ZhangBrown AMinnesota B13410
Ani PerumallaPenn State AChicago C13510
Khushi UmarwadiaSouth Carolina AColumbia B13810
Tegan KapadiaGeorgia Tech BCornell B15310
Jisoo YooTexas AMcGill A15310
John BroussardHouston AChicago A16610
Benjamin McAvoy-BickfordPenn AHarvard A16610
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