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The speaker of a poem about one of these people who died of AIDS describes moments when she glimpsed herself in a store window and felt “a cherishing so deep” for herself that it left her speechless. That poem is Marie Howe’s “What the Living Do.” A poetic book about one of these people captions an image of red paint with an instruction to “begin with the blush.” That book about one of these people includes xeroxed dictionary definitions for words like indigne (“in-DIG-nay”) and gentes (“GHEN-taze”). Big Jim Evans calls the death of a person (-5[1])with this (10[1])relation (10[1])to the poet (10[2])“a hard (10[1])blow” in a poem that describes a mother’s “angry (10[1])tearless (10[1])sighs.” Both Anne Carson’s accordion book Nox (10[1]-5[1])and (10[1])the Catullus poem it (10[2])interpolates are elegies (10[2])for these (10[1])relatives. (10[1])For 10 points, the (-5[1])death of what kind of family member (10[1])inspired the image (10[1])of a “four-foot box” (10[1]-5[1])in Seamus (10[1])Heaney’s (10[1])“Mid-Term Break”? (10[1])■END■ (10[2]0[1])

ANSWER: brothers [prompt on siblings, relatives, family members, kin, or equivalents until “relatives” is read; reject “children”]
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