Question

The magazine “lesser cuckoo” specialized in poems in this form and was edited by an author who called for their reform in a series of talks “from the Otter's Den.” A poem in this form depicts baths “when you’re born” and “when you die” before concluding, “how stupid.” A poem in this form imagines its author's “dreams wandering on this withered field” before his death. A poem in this form works describing a “crimson maple leaf” is analyzed (15[1])in an (*) anthology based (10[1])on a children's game. The lines “goes out, / comes back— / the love life of” one animal appear in a poem in this form by Issa. The Seashell Game is an anthology of poems in this form by an author who wrote one about “the splash of water” after a frog jumps into a pond. Matsuo Basho wrote many poems in, for 10 points, what form of Japanese poetry with a 5-7-5 pattern? ■END■

ANSWER: haiku [or hokku; prompt on death poem]
<Noah Sheidlower, World Literature>
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2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard)10/21/2023Y3100%0%0%102.33
2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite)10/21/2023Y7100%29%0%87.57
2023 Penn Bowl (Norcal)10/28/2023Y2100%50%0%79.00
2023 Penn Bowl (South Central)10/28/2023Y3100%0%0%110.00
2023 Penn Bowl (UK)10/28/2023Y5100%40%0%92.80
2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo10/28/2023Y4100%25%0%79.75
2023 Penn Bowl @ UNC10/28/2023Y3100%0%0%97.33
2023 Penn Bowl @ FSU10/28/2023Y2100%0%0%111.00