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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2023 BHSU @ Berkeley03/18/2023Y210.00100%0%0%
2023 BHSU @ Maryland03/11/2023Y120.00100%100%0%
2023 BHSU @ Northwestern02/25/2023Y415.00100%25%25%
2023 BHSU Online04/15/2023Y220.00100%100%0%
2023 BHSU @ Sheffield04/15/2023Y215.00100%50%0%

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