Question

In this author’s play Three Travelers Watch a Sunrise, one of the Three Chinese says, “All you need, / To find poetry, / Is to look for it with a lantern.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this author who wrote about the poet Claire Dupray in his play Bowl, Cat, and Broomstick. This author described the path of the title creature in “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.”
ANSWER: Wallace Stevens
[10m] In Three Travelers Watch a Sunrise, the Second Chinese says that a court “never knew” flawed versions of these objects. Stevens wrote, “It took dominion everywhere” in an “Anecdote of” one of these objects.
ANSWER: jars [accept “Anecdote of the Jar”]
[10h] Stevens’s play Bowl, Cat, and Broomstick is collected in The Palm at the End of the Mind, a title this author borrowed for an essay about the Sentinelese. Reno learns to race motorcycles in this author’s novel The Flamethrowers.
ANSWER: Rachel Kushner
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A Brandeis SupremeClark A100010
Amherst ABoston University A1010020
Bowdoin BDiamond Brandeis0000
Yale CBrandeises Brew0000
MIT ABrown A1010020
Yale ACarabrandeis1010020
Northeastern AHarvard A0000
Tufts ATufts B0000
Williams ABowdoin A100010
Yale BBoston University B100010