Question
Ilya Kaminsky’s poem “Musica Humana” recalls how when one of this poet’s students complained about not being published, this poet threw him down the stairs and shouted, “Was Sappho? Was Jesus Christ?” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this poet who was arrested for writing a poem about a figure “Ringed with a scum of chicken-necked bosses” who has “ten thick worms his fingers, / his words like measures of weight.”
ANSWER: Osip Mandelstam [or Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam]
[10e] Mandelstam’s wife initially hoped he had been arrested not for writing the “Stalin Epigram” but for slapping a writer with this surname. That writer’s distant relative of this surname wrote War and Peace.
ANSWER: Tolstoy [accept Alexei Tolstoy; accept Leo Tolstoy]
[10m] The more famous Tolstoy is one of the writers decried in this movement’s manifesto “A Slap in the Face of Public Taste.” Mandelstam opposed this literary movement of Vladimir Mayakovsky and Victor Khlebnikov.
ANSWER: Futurism [accept Russian Futurism]
<CM, European Literature>
Summary
| 2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | Premiere | Y | 2 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University | Premiere | Y | 3 | 26.67 | 100% | 100% | 67% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Claremont Colleges | Premiere | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Indiana | Premiere | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 20% | 60% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at RIT | Premiere | Y | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL | Premiere | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
Data
| Berkeley A | Berkeley C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Stanford A | Berkeley B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |