Question
In the frame story of Dionne Brand’s poetry collection The Blue Clerk, the title character inspects bales of these pages “on a wharf somewhere.” For 10 points each:
[10e] What term refers to a left-hand page or the back of a single leaf, in contrast to the recto? It names a left-wing publishing house whose logo is a stylized “V.”
ANSWER: verso
[10h] Dionne Brand’s “Verso 55,” which depicts the speaker talking to “gods” at this place, was quoted by Christina Sharpe to illustrate the concept of “wake work.” Another of Brand’s collection is titled for a “map” to this place.
ANSWER: Door of No Return [accept House of Slaves or Gorée Island; accept Map to the Door of No Return; prompt on doors]
[10m] Another Canadian poet, Jordan Abel, left the versos blank in his collection A Place of Scraps, which applies this technique to Marius Barbeau’s work on totem poles. Name or describe this technique, which Tom Philips used for A Humument (“HYOOM-yoo-ment”).
ANSWER: erasure poetry [or blackout poetry; accept descriptions of drawing, painting, collage, collaging over, blacking out, crossing out, or covering up an existing book; prompt on found poetry, treated novel, or altered book]
<JB, World Literature>
Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 15 | 17.33 | 93% | 80% | 0% |
Data
| A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | We Need New Names | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | var merchants | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | Lisan al-Quib | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| BHSU B | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Les Missourables | Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Punished "Venom" BHSU | The Dyatlov Passement incident | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| The Empire Bikes Back | sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| The Jeam Team | First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| The Oldest Men in the World | Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | LMM's LLM MLM | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |