Question
Edmond Jabès answered the question “what is the story of this book?” with “becoming aware of” one of these things in his esoteric long poem The Book of Questions. For 10 points each:
[10m] Joyce Mansour’s first collection is titled for what things? A poem by Andrei Voznesensky describes a “darkmother” one of these things, and Yevgeny Yevtusheko claimed to be a “massive, soundless” one in “Babi Yar.”
ANSWER: screams [or cris; or krik; accept cry or screech; accept “darkmotherscream”]
[10h] Jabès and Mansour were Jewish poets from this city’s surrealist scene. In this city, Georges Henein (“ha-NAYN”) used the motto “long live degenerate art!” for the surrealist Art et Liberté group.
ANSWER: Cairo
[10e] Translations of Mansour’s poetry are collected in a book titled for “Emerald” examples of these features. Ocean Vuong’s first poetry collection is titled for a “night sky” with the “exit” type of these features.
ANSWER: wounds [accept Emerald Wounds or Night Sky With Exit Wounds]
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Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 14 | 12.14 | 93% | 29% | 0% |
Data
| A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | Punished "Venom" BHSU | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| LMM's LLM MLM | BHSU B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | Les Missourables | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Lisan al-Quib | Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| The Dyatlov Passement incident | The Empire Bikes Back | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| The Jeam Team | SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | The Oldest Men in the World | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | We Need New Names | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| var merchants | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |