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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Summary
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| 2024 ACF Winter at Clemson | 2024-11-16 | Y | 8 | 7.50 | 38% | 38% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern | 2024-11-16 | Y | 9 | 13.33 | 78% | 44% | 11% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State | 2024-11-16 | Y | 7 | 12.86 | 57% | 71% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Online | 2024-11-16 | Y | 8 | 11.25 | 75% | 38% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at UBC | 2024-11-16 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
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