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This is the first title noun in a poem whose last section adapts part of Christopher Columbus’s diary, and whose speaker thinks of her Soviet ballet teacher while braving a snowstorm to bring a leotard to her daughter. This is the first title noun of a Pulitzer-winning book that selects poems from the collections Materialism and Region of Unlikeness. A series of poems titled for these events ends with a poem that says, “My daughter’s heavier. Light leaves are flying,” and opens with a poem whose speaker wonders how the main character “pried / open for all the world to see, survived.” (10[1])The declaration “Life, friends, is (10[1])boring” (10[6])appears in that (10[1])385-poem (10[2])series titled for these events, (10[1])in which a character uses “blackface” dialect to address (10[1])“Mr. Bones.” (10[1])For 10 points, (10[3])“Huffy Henry” (10[1])appears (10[1])in what kind of “songs” (10[1])written (10[1])by (10[1])John Berryman? ■END■ (0[3])

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