Question
Answer the following about Alicia Ostriker’s collection Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women’s Poetry in America, for 10 points each.
[10e] Ostriker’s book was one of the first to highlight female authors of this ethnicity like Gloria Anzaldúa and Sandra Cisneros.
ANSWER: Chicano [or Chicana or Chicanx; accept Mexican-American or Mexican; prompt on Hispanic or Latino or Latina or Latine or Latinx]
[10m] Ostriker argued that women write about the earth to imply a “critical and subversive intelligence,” like this author’s poem about God “craving” Earth. This Confessional poet wrote The Awful Rowing Towards God and committed suicide like her friend Sylvia Plath.
ANSWER: Anne Sexton
[10h] Stealing the Language is discussed in this experimental book by Giannina Braschi, whose second section“Blow-Up” is a conversation that alternates between Spanish and English about finding a house’s keys.
ANSWER: Yo-Yo Boing!
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Summary
| 2024 Booster Shot (Columbia) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 18.33 | 100% | 50% | 33% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt) | 03/02/2024 | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 80% | 20% | 40% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt) | 03/02/2024 | Y | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (WUSTL) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
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| Truman State | SIUE | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| WUSTL C | Squidward Community College | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL J | WUSTL A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |