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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