“Meditation at Lagunitas” - 2024 Penn Bowl UNC

Question

This poem italicizes the words “justice, pine, hair, woman, you and I” after describing how “everything dissolves.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this poem by a translator of Czesław Miłosz (“CHEH-swaff mee-WOSH”) that ends by repeating the word “blackberry” three times. This poem notes, “All the new thinking is about loss.”

ANSWER: “Meditation at Lagunitas”

[10e] Robert Hass translated and published a book of 300 “essential” poems in this form, including poems by Kobayashi Issa and Matsuo Basho. Richard Wright published over 800 poems in this form in This Other World.

ANSWER: haiku

[10m] Hass wrote a poem titled for this state that reads, “In the long winter nights, a farmer’s dreams are narrow. / Over and over, he enters the furrow.” Marilynne Robinson's novel Gilead takes place in this state.

ANSWER: Iowa

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Summary


2024 Penn Bowl Berkeley	11/02/2024	Y	2	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2024 Penn Bowl CWRU	11/02/2024	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
2024 Penn Bowl Chicago	11/02/2024	Y	7	11.43	100%	14%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl Florida	10/26/2024	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl Harvard	10/26/2024	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl Mainsite	11/02/2024	Y	2	15.00	100%	0%	50%
2024 Penn Bowl Playtest	10/12/2024	Y	4	27.50	100%	75%	100%
2024 Penn Bowl Texas	11/02/2024	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl UK	10/26/2024	Y	5	16.00	100%	40%	20%
2024 Penn Bowl UNC	10/26/2024	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


Duke A	RIT A	10	10
UNC B	Virginia Tech A	10	10
UNC C	UNC A	10	10