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The narrator paints landscapes of this substance after recalling a trip from New York to see her grandmother in the story “To Da-duh, in Memoriam.” In a novel, this natural substance prompts nightmares of a dancing woman with a “shiny silver muzzle.” A poet who critiqued (-5[1])James Grainger’s Georgic poem on this substance (-5[1])described schoolchildren writing of the “alien experience” of “snow falling” on it in his book History of the Voice. A hot-air balloon at a mill that processes this (10[1])plant is stolen by Guy (“ghee”), leading (10[1])to his death, in the story “A Wall of Fire Rising.” Sebastien (10[1])Onius (10[1])harvests (10[1])this plant in a novel (10[1])by (10[1])Edwidge Danticat (10[1])that (10[1])likens its industry (10[2])to the “farming of bones.” (10[7])Both Beli and Oscar (10[1])Wao (10[1])are left to die in fields of this plant. For 10 points, what plant titles a multi-genre book of vignettes and poetry by Jean (“zhawn”) Toomer? ■END■ (10[2]0[3])

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