Packet I: Tossup 9

A line from this poem titles Paisley Rekdal’s 2024 book on reading and writing “forensically.” This poem quotes Tolstoy’s diary in a line about “business documents and school-books” and borrows a critical description by (10[1])Yeats (10[1])of William Blake. (10[1])This poem’s list of things “we cannot understand” includes “the baseball fan, (10[1])the statistician,” (10[2])and “the immovable (10[1])critic (10[1])twinkling his skin.” (-5[1])This poem, which its author radically abridged to just three lines (10[1])for the collection Complete Poems, (10[1])claims (10[1])that there is “after all, (-5[1])a place for the genuine” in its subject. This poem imagines (10[1])a time when “the (10[1])autocrats among us” (10[1]-5[1])can be “literalists of the imagination” (10[1])and present “imaginary (10[1])gardens (10[1])with real toads in them.” (10[2])For 10 points, (10[1])the claim “I too, (10[1])dislike (10[1])it” (10[3])opens what (10[2])poem (10[3]-5[1])by Marianne (-5[1])Moore? (10[2])■END■ (10[8]0[16])

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