Tossup
A poet from this modern-day country who sought to be a “fish in a bottle of booze” cited his unpleasant image of a man’s painful corns in the manifesto “Strange.” The poem “The Silent Ship” was addressed to the mother of a Marxist poet from this country, who spent a lengthy prison sentence writing a verse novel about its “Human Landscapes” and described a girl who “comes and stands at every door” in “Hiroshima Child.” In a novel from this country, the housewife Ella reads Sweet Blasphemy, which details Shams of Tabriz’s teachings to Rumi. A memoir titled for this country’s largest city analyzes its unique form of melancholy, hüzün. In a novel, a poet who keeps a green notebook returns to this country from a 12-year exile in Frankfurt to report on a suicide epidemic. For 10 points, Nâzım Hikmet was from what country of the author of Snow? ■END■
Buzzes
Summary
| Tournament | Exact Match? | TUH | Conv. % | Power % | Neg % | Average Buzz |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 ACF Nationals | Yes | 22 | 100% | 0% | 18% | 108.27 |