Question
This man walked into a coffee shop and recited a poem titled “All those ships that never sailed” to break the decade long vow of silence he took after the JFK assassination. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this “black American Rimbaud,” a surrealist jazz poet who was a fixture of San Francisco’s North Beach in the 1950s. Only a fraction of his work was published in books like Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness.
ANSWER: Bob Kaufman [or Robert Garnell Kaufman]
[10e] According to editor Raymond Foye, Kaufman was the first to use this literary term, which denotes a “generation” of writers such as Burroughs, Kerouac, and Ginsberg.
ANSWER: beatnik [accept Beat Generation]
[10m] Kaufman prophesied “green trains shall arrive from red planet Mars” in an all-caps poem about the “night” that this man “comes.” In “A Supermarket in California,” Ginsberg asks this man “what were you doing down by the watermelons?”
ANSWER: Federico Garcia Lorca [accept "THE NIGHT THAT LORCA COMES"]
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Summary
| 2023 BHSU @ Berkeley | 03/18/2023 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Maryland | 03/11/2023 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Northwestern | 02/25/2023 | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 25% | 25% |
| 2023 BHSU Online | 04/15/2023 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Sheffield | 04/15/2023 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
Data
| Maryland A | The Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 Negs | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |