Question
In a Nancy Morejón poem with this title, the speaker declares, “I trod the length of all her rivers. / Under her sun I planted and gathered harvests I did not eat.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Give this two-word phrase which titles a Leopold Senghor poem about a naked figure who has “firm-fleshed ripe fruit” and is “clothed with your colour which is life.”
ANSWER: “Black Woman”
[10m] Margaret Busby included poems by Nancy Morejón, Naomi Long Madgett, and Georgia Douglas Johnson all titled “Black Woman” in an anthology titled Daughters of this place. The speaker of a poem is torn between this place and “the English tongue I love.”
ANSWER: Africa [accept “A Far Cry from Africa” or Daughters of Africa]
[10e] A Grace Nichols poem claims this concept “is a fat black woman / walking the fields.” Lord Byron mentions “cloudless climes and starry skies” in a poem titled “She Walks in [this concept].”
ANSWER: beauty [accept “She Walks in Beauty”]
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