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 in the collection it appears (-5[1])in. (-5[1])A poet from this island feels “greener than grass” and “thin / fire ... racing under skin” in a poem beginning, (*) “He seems to me equal to the gods.” The lyric poet (10[2])Alcaeus lived on this island, which is home to an author who pleads with a “deathless” deity “of the spangled mind” in Anne Carson’s translation If Not, Winter. For 10 points, name this Greek island home to Sappho, (10[1]-5[1])which inspired a term (10[1])for gay women. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Lesbos (The second sentence refers to Charles Baudelaire’s “Lesbos.”)
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Davis JohnsonPurdue BNotre Dame A67-5
Andrew WangIllinois AIllinois B68-5
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Matt SchiavonePurdue ANotre Dame B10010
Nermeen RahmanChicago BIndiana13810
Tanuj ChandekarIndianaChicago B138-5
Stephen HeritageNotre Dame APurdue B14210
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