Question

The speaker of a poem titled for this place begins, “Viciousness in the kitchen! / The potatoes hiss” and refuses to drown her kittens; that poem is by Sylvia Plath. This title place is called a “land of hot and languorous nights” in a poem that, along with “The Vampire’s Metamorphoses” and “Lethe,” was one of six to be censored from initial publication (15[1])in the collection it appears in. A poet from this island feels “greener than grass” and “thin / fire racing under skin” in a poem that begins (*) “He seems to me equal to the gods.” The lyric poet (10[1])Alcaeus lived on this island, which is home to an author (10[1])who pleads with a “deathless” deity “of the spangled mind” in Anne Carson’s (10[1])translation If Not, Winter. For 10 points, name this Greek island home to Sappho, which inspired a term for gay women. ■END■

ANSWER: Lesbos [prompt on Greece] (The second sentence refers to Charles Baudelaire’s “Lesbos.”)
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Arya KarthikGeorgia Tech DGeorgia Tech C6215
Jason HawkinsGeorgia BGeorgia Tech A10110
Danny TranTennessee AGeorgia Tech B11210
Bob FreedmanGeorgia AEmory A12510

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