A poem by this author reflects on “Thursday days” and “humerus bones” in its last stanza. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this author who wrote that “I will die in Paris with a rainstorm,” perhaps “on a Thursday, as today is,” in his poem “Black Stone on a White Stone.” He also wrote The Black Heralds.
ANSWER: César Vallejo [or César Abraham Vallejo Mendoza]
[10e] César Vallejo (“vah-YAY-ho”) was born in this South American country, also home to Mario Vargas Llosa (“YO-sah”).
ANSWER: Peru [or Republic of Peru; or or República del Perú]
[10h] “Rainstorm” is swapped out for this word in A. B. Spellman’s poem “After Vallejo.” The book History of the Voice claims that a certain literature does not have “the syllables, the syllabic intelligence” to describe this word.
ANSWER: hurricane
<Jay Kim, World Literature>