Tossup
This poet is invaded by night “with her powerful army” in a poem that recalls being armed for the “hour of revenge.” A poem by this author asks a “brother” in the “bedrock depths” to “rise up in birth with me.” The memory of a “deserted one” is likened to the sea at the end of a numeralled collection by this poet that opens with “Body of a Woman.” This poet climbs the title “Heights” of a ruined city in a poem from a fifteen-canto epic chronicling the New World. This poet grieves a former lover in the last romantic poem of a collection, which opens by declaring “tonight I can write the saddest lines.” For 10 points, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair is by what Chilean poet? ■END■
ANSWER: Pablo Neruda [or Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto]
<McGill E + Georgia Tech A, World Literature>
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Buzzes
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | TUH | Conv. % | Neg % | Average Buzz |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern California | US | 4 | 100% | 0% | 93.25 |
| Southern California | US | 7 | 100% | 0% | 91.14 |
| Eastern Canada (1) | US | 4 | 100% | 0% | 94.50 |
| Eastern Canada (2) | US | 9 | 100% | 0% | 98.44 |
| Florida | US | 3 | 100% | 0% | 100.00 |
| Great Lakes | US | 10 | 100% | 20% | 87.50 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | US | 9 | 100% | 0% | 97.33 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | US | 9 | 78% | 0% | 91.71 |
| Midwest | US | 9 | 100% | 0% | 77.78 |
| North | US | 4 | 100% | 0% | 125.00 |
| Northeast | US | 12 | 75% | 17% | 90.56 |
| Pacific | US | 8 | 100% | 38% | 111.63 |
| Southeast | US | 12 | 92% | 0% | 86.27 |
| Upstate NY | US | 5 | 100% | 20% | 126.20 |