Packet 7: Bonus 13
In the first lines of A. R. Ammons’ Garbage, “creepy little creepers” reference a line by this poet to bug the speaker about “writing that great poem / the world’s waiting for.” For 10 points each:
[10e] What Imagist poet of “This Is Just To Say” used triadic lines in “Asphodel, That Greeny Flower”?
ANSWER: William Carlos Williams
[10h] Garbage plays on Williams’ claim in “Asphodel, That Greeny Flower” that “it is difficult” to do this three-word action “from poems / yet men die miserably every day / for lack / of what is found there.”
ANSWER: “get the news”
[10m] News articles are repurposed in documentary poetry like One With Others, which is by a poet with the initials C. D. and this surname. A novelist with this surname wrote almost 4,000 haiku shortly before his 1960 death.
ANSWER: Wright [accept C. D. Wright; accept Richard Wright]
<HA, American Literature> | NAFTA-Packet-7
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43 | 16.74 | 93% | 65% | 9% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Unbearable Heaviness of History Players | UBC B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| UBC A | Abbas I founded the Abbasids | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 NAFTA at Stanford | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 75% | 25% |
| 2026 NAFTA at UBC | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA Online | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 6.00 | 40% | 20% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Maryland | 09/27/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 80% | 20% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Harvard | 10/04/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Oxford | 10/11/2025 | ✓ | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 6 | 21.67 | 100% | 83% | 33% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Columbia | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 60% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Richmond | 12/20/2025 | ✓ | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |