Question
The speaker of a poem titled for this city says he’d rather be “screaming and dancing against the orchestra in the destructible ballroom of the world.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this city that titles the winner of the first National Book Award for Poetry. The speaker of an epic titled for this city commands, “Say it!” of a repeated motto in its first section, “The Delineaments of the Giants.”
ANSWER: Paterson
[10e] This author used the motto “no ideas but in things” in his epic poem Paterson. This author wrote about plums in the icebox in the poem “This Is Just To Say.”
ANSWER: William Carlos Williams
[10m] This author’s letter to Williams appears in the fourth book of Paterson. This native of Paterson wrote, “Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes” to open a poem for his mother titled “Kaddish.”
ANSWER: Allen Ginsberg
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Winter @ Columbia | 11/11/2023 | Y | 3 | 26.67 | 100% | 100% | 67% |
Data
| Columbia B | NYU A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Yale A | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Cornell C | Yale C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |