Question
The speaker of a Galway Kinnell poem calls these objects “many-lettered, one-syllabled lumps” who have a “silent, startled, icy” language in late September. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name these fruits that cause the speaker’s palms to become as “sticky as Bluebeard’s” in a Seamus Heaney poem mourning how “all the lovely canfuls smelt of rot.”
ANSWER: blackberries [accept “Blackberry-Picking” or “Blackberry Eating”; prompt on berries]
[10m] The speaker recalls “saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry” in this poet’s “Meditation at Lagunitas.” This American poet is a prolific translator of Czesław Miłosz and many haikus.
ANSWER: Robert Hass
[10h] The speaker declares, “bracken exists; and blackberries, blackberries; / bromine exists” in this book-length abecedarian poem. This Inger Christensen poem on nuclear war is structured according to the Fibonacci sequence.
ANSWER: Alphabet [or alfabet]
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