Question
Answer the following about American poetry collections that interpolate European authors, for 10 points each.
[10m] In The Sonnets, Ted Berrigan often quotes his own loose translations of this poem, such as the line “stronger than alcohol, more great than song.” The speaker of this poem longs for Europe’s parapets after arriving in “unbelievable Floridas.”
ANSWER: “The Drunken Boat” [or “Le bateau ivre”] (by Arthur Rimbaud)
[10e] Christian Hawkey’s Ventrakl includes a series of poems pieced together from Georg Trakl’s mentions of these things. A sonnet by Arthur Rimbaud assigns these things to the vowels.
ANSWER: colors [or Farben; or couleurs]
[10h] Ventrakl was inspired by this collection, which includes the credo “I would like to make poems out of real objects.” This Jack Spicer book consists of letters to the title poet and reworkings of poems like “Narcissus.”
ANSWER: After Lorca
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 11 | 12.73 | 91% | 36% | 0% |
Data
| Chicago A | Georgia Tech | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Florida | Virginia | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Iowa State | Toronto A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| North Carolina B | Cornell A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Ottawa | Columbia A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Purdue | Penn | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Stanford | Maryland | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Texas | Arizona State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia B | Toronto B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Duke | WUSTL A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Waterloo | Michigan | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |