This poem ends with the admonition “Beware … / Beware … / Of my hunger / And my anger!” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this poem which states “I have eight children / And the ninth will come after a summer. / Will you be angry?” after describing the number of its title object as “fifty thousand.”
ANSWER: “Identity Card”
[10e] This Arab-language poet wrote “Identity Card,” as well as the Palestinian Declaration of Independence.
ANSWER: Mahmoud Darwish
[10h] This poem titles a posthumous collection by Palestinian author Refaat Alareer. Its title phrase is followed by the words “you must live / to tell my story / to sell my things / to buy a piece of cloth / and some strings.”
ANSWER: “If I Must Die” [reject “If We Must Die”]
<Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford, World Literature>