“Poetry” - Canada

Round 7: 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 Yeats of William Blake. This poem’s list of things “we cannot understand” includes “the baseball fan, the statistician,” and “the immovable critic twinkling his skin.” This poem, which its author radically abridged to just three lines for the collection Complete Poems, claims that there is “after all, a place for the genuine” in its subject. This poem imagines a time when “the autocrats among us” can be “literalists of the imagination” and present “imaginary gardens with real toads in them.” For 10 points, the claim “I too, dislike it” opens what poem (-5[1])by Marianne Moore? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: “Poetry” (Rekdal’s book is titled Real Toads, Imaginary Gardens. Yeats called Blake a “too literal realist of the imagination.”)

<Michigan B, American Literature> | Packet I - McGill B, UCLA A, Michigan B, Georgia Tech C, Southampton B

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzzpoint	Value
Tai Belke	UBC B	McGill A	125	-5
Asha Basu	McGill A	UBC B	129	10

Summary

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California (North)	Main Site	✓	3	100%	0%	61.33
Canada	Main Site	✓	1	100%	100%	129.00
Florida	Main Site	✓	3	0%	33%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	✓	9	56%	0%	113.20
Midwest	Main Site	✓	9	56%	0%	110.20
Northeast	Main Site	✓	6	83%	0%	104.60
Overflow	Main Site	✓	4	75%	0%	66.67
South Central	Main Site	✓	2	100%	0%	81.50
Southeast	Main Site	✓	7	71%	0%	119.00
UK	Main Site	✓	6	33%	17%	118.00
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	✓	9	78%	22%	100.71
Upstate NY	Main Site	✓	4	50%	0%	96.50