In an Adam Zagajewski (“za-ga-YEFF-skee”) poem about “Reading” this author, the speaker says, “your tone / transforms us for a moment, / we believe—truly— / that every day is sacred.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this author, who inspired another author to write “I kill the [this author] in myself / in order to be more [this author].” This winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature wrote The Captive Mind.
ANSWER: Czesław Miłosz (“CHESS-waff MEE-wohsh”) (Witold Gombrowicz wrote about “kill[ing] the Miłosz in myself.”)
[10e] Adam Zagajewski, Miłosz, and Wisława Szymborska (“vee-SWAH-vah shim-BOR-ska”) primarily wrote in this language.
ANSWER: Polish [or polski; or język polski]
[10h] Zagajewski wrote the poem “Try to Praise the Mutilated World” in response to this event. Szymborska wrote a poem framed as a “Photograph” from this event.
ANSWER: 9/11 [or the September 11, 2001 attacks; or the attack on the World Trade Center; or the attack on the Twin Towers; accept “Photograph from September 11” or “Fotografia z 11 wresnia”]
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