Question
The lines “I will make divine magnetic lands / with the love of comrades” appear in a poem from this sequence titled “For You O Democracy”. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this sequence of 45 poems, which included the poems from “Live Oak with Moss”. They were only included in a collection’s third edition, due to the explicitness of poems like “We Two Boys Together Clinging”.
ANSWER: Calamus poems [prompt on Leaves of Grass, asking “what specific sequence within that?”]
[10e] The Calamus poems are among the most explicitly homoerotic poems by this author. They appear in this poet’s collection Leaves of Grass.
ANSWER: Walt Whitman [or Walter Whitman]
[10m] Whitman almost didn’t include this poem in Leaves of Grass due to its list of explicit anatomical parts, of which he writes “these are the soul!”. This poem notes “the armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth them”.
ANSWER: “I Sing the Body Electric”
Summary
| 2023 UMN COOT | 08/19/2023 | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 67% | 67% |
Data
| BHSU | Jeff Weiner Fan Club | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Palestrina Sawayama | Our Job is Buzz | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| doubleplusnegfive | Weird Klaus Barbie | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |