Question
Patricia Smith declared “gotta love us brown girls, munching on fat, swinging blue hips” to open a poem in this form titled for its “Hip-Hop” variety. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this genre, which titles a Tracy K. Smith poem that notes “history is a ship forever setting sail.” Poems in this genre were compiled in Ravishing DisUnities by a poet who used this genre for Call Me Ishmael Tonight.
ANSWER: ghazal (“guh-ZAHL”) [accept “Hip-Hop Ghazal”] (The Tracy K. Smith poem is titled “Ghazal.” The unnamed poet is Agha Shahid Ali.)
[10h] This author declares “I know more than Joe Christmas did” in a discussion of her mixed-race parentage in the ghazal “Miscegenation,” which appears in a collection titled for an all-black regiment that served in the Civil War.
ANSWER: Natasha Trethewey (The collection is Native Guard.)
[10e] In Jericho Brown’s ghazal “Hustle,” the imprisoned speaker mentions how the protagonist of this author’s novel The Third Life of Grange Copeland only gets seven years in prison for killing his wife. This author also wrote The Color Purple.
ANSWER: Alice Walker [or Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker]
<Literature - American Literature - Poetry>
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Data
| Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |