Question
A poet from this country included “The Individual’s Soliloquy” in his collection Poems and Antipoems. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this home country of that self-described “anti-poet” who often declared, “I take back everything I’ve said” at the end of poetry recitals.
ANSWER: Republic of Chile [or República de Chile]
[10e] Nicanor Parra used this poetic form for this antipoem “Something Like That.” This fourteen-line form was used by Gabriela Mistral for several poems of Death.
ANSWER: sonnets [or Petrarchan sonnets; or Sonetos de la Muerte; or Sonnets of Death]
[10h] This other poet published several poems termed “antisonnets” in the book Mask and Clover. The narrator of a poem by this author gives the request, “If he telephones again / tell him not to keep trying for I have left” to a nurse.
ANSWER: Alfonsina Storni
<Aum Mundhe, World Literature>
Summary
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