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Packet J: Bonus 17

Answer the following about contemporary American poetry inspired by the Odyssey, for 10 points each.
[10m] This poet retold the Odyssey in her 1996 book Meadowlands and retold part of the Iliad in her collection The Triumph of Achilles. This author of The Wild Iris won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature and died in 2023.
ANSWER: Louise Glück
[10h] The Odyssey informs the titles of this collection’s poems “Telemachus,” “Trojan,” and “Odysseus Redux.” A poem from this collection imagines “you take the knife to the wall” and opens, “suppose you do change your life.”
ANSWER: Night Sky with Exit Wounds (by Ocean Vuong)
[10e] Barbara Hamby retold the Odyssey in six sonnets in a 2018 collection titled for the “Odyssey” of one of these animals. Wallace Stevens wrote about “Thirteen Ways of Looking at” one of these animals.
ANSWER: birds [accept Bird Odyssey; accept “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”]
<Southampton A, American Literature> | Packet J - Southampton A, Indiana A, Illinois B, Edinburgh A

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