Author Bios

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1770-1850 and Lancashire

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William Wordsworth lived from ____ to ____ in ____ (northwestern England).

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Lake District and Lake Poet

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Wordsworth is closely associated with a region known as the ____ where he gets his name: _____.

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Romanticism

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Wordsworth is associated with this movement:

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Lyrical Ballads

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With collaboration from his young friend ___, Wordsworth published series of poems in 1798 known as ____ which became one of the most important poetry collections in the English language.

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Romantic celebration of nature

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The poems in Lyrical Ballads are frequently cited to exemplify the ________.

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We murder to dissect

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One of Wordsworth's best known lines is "______" as it criticizes the destruction of life that science entails.

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The Prelude

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Wordsworth's magnum opus:

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Huntington, New York

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Where was Walt Whitman born?

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From 1819 to 1892

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When was his life span?

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Journalist, teacher, and clerk

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What were his three occupations?

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volunteer nurse

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Whitman served as a ___________ in the American Civil War.

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Leaves of Grass

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What great work did he self-publish with his own money?

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1855

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When was this work published?

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It was viewed to be very frank about sexuality and desire.

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Why was this work seen as scandalous by many readers?

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homosexual

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Whitman's sexuality has much been a mystery; he was most likely a __________.

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Camden, New Jersey

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He continued to revise his magnum opus until death, in ______,__________ in 1892.

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literary reputation

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Unfortunately,Whitman's ___________ did not significantly grow until after he had passed.

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Emily Dickenson

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Walt Whitman and __________ are deeply considered to be the two most influential American poets in the ninetieth century.

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With his grand, effusive verses

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How does Whitman capture the energy and enthusiasm of the young America?

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I contradict myself? So I contradict myself. I am large. I contain multitudes.

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One of Whitman's well-known statements is this:____________________.

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the middle decades of the nineteenth century

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Whitman's voice strives to speak for the young republic during a period of expansion and tribulation:_______________.

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Song of Myself

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This collective voice rings clearly throughout the poem __________; it is perhaps his most famous.

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Passage to India

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This same voice can also be heard in another fine work of his, which is named ____________.

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sympathy

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Leaves of Grass received more _________ in the century following the ninetieth.

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modernism

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The rise of __________ made free verse more acceptable.

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social outlook and attitudes

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In recent times, Whitman's ________________ have become more acceptable in recent times.

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Gary Snyder and Allen Ginsberg

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Whom were the so-called Beat poets that were inspired by Whitman?

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Ginsberg

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Between the two so-called Beat poets, who practically assumed the role as the modern Whitman?

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Scotland

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John Muir was born in _____ into a family that immigrated to the US when he was 3-years-old.

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Scots Presbyterians

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Muir's parents were very strict religious __________. The young John could recite the New Testament and some of the the Old Testament.

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Organized religion

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Muir is known for his skepticism about ____________.

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Portage, Wisconsin

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Muir was raised on a farm near _______, _______.

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Theology of immanence

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_________ is the presence of a deity in the present world (this is closely linked to romanticism).

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University of Wisconsin

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Muir went to college at the ____________ (although he never earned a degree from there).

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Henry David Thoreau

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Muir, like this transcendental author, is known for wandering through the woods.

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Canada

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During the Civil War, Muir went to ________ to avoid the draft.

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Botany, Chemistry, and Geology

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What three subjects did Muir study in college?

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scientific descriptions and appreciation of nature

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Part of the appeal of Muir's writing is the vivid juxtaposition of his ______ with an _____.

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California

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Which State is Muir most closely associated with?

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Sierra Club

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What organization did Muir create?

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St. Louis, Missouri

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Sarah Teasdale (1884-1933) was a native of __, ___.

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health and relationships

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Sarah Teasdale had __ problems throughout her life and __ problems as an adult.

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twenties

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Teasdale began publishing poems in her ___.

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Rivers to the Sea (1915)

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___ was Teasdale's third collection and became a bestseller on the eve of WW1.

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Love Songs (1917)

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This collection by Teasdale won a Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1918.

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New York

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When Teasdale married, she moved to __. She eventually divorced her husband.

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1933 and sleeping pills

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In ___ Teasdale committed suicide by an overdose of __.

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St. Louis, Missouri

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Teasdale was buried in ___.

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There will come soft rain

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What poem in the guide did Teasdale write?

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Ray Bradbury

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Teasdale's poem "There Will Come soft Rain" inspired __ to write a short story of the same title in 1950.

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Scottish

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Edwin Muir was ___.

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Critic, journalist, novelist, translator, memoirist, and poet

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In Edwin Muir's life time, he was a __, __, __, __, __, and __.

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Orkney Islands

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Edwin Muir was born on the ___, a large archipelago just off the northern tip of Scotland (Caithness).

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tenant farmers

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Edwin Muir came from a family of ___.

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Deerness and Glasgow

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When Edwin Muir was 14, his family lost their farm in ___ and moved to the large Scottish city of __, a manufacturing hub of the Industrial Revolution.

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steel and shipbuilding

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The Scottish city of Glasgow was famous for __ production and __.

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died

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Shortly after Edwin Muir's family moved to the city his parents and two brothers __.

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Edwin Muir

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Who wrote "The Horses?"

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World Wars

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Edwin Muir lived through two __.

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Wilhelmina Anderson and London

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Edwin Muir married __ and moved to __.

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German

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What language does the guide say Edwin Muir taught himself?

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Franz Kafka

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What notable work did Edwin Muir translate from German to English?

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the structure of the novel

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Edwin Muir wrote works of literary scholarship, such as __ which remains an influential study.

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Harvard

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Later in Edwin Muir's life, he received a faculty position at __.

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Robinson Jeffers

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__ was one of California's best known poets; he even graced the cover of TIME magazine early on in his career.

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Robinson Jeffers

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__ became a kind of idealogical outcast for his isolationism during WWII.

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Presbyterian minister and Allegheny, Pennsylvania

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Robinson Jeffers' father was a ___ in ___.

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Carmel, Monterey, Point Lobos, and Big Sur

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Robinson Jeffers is associated the area around __ and ___, California, not far from the dramatic landscapes of ___ and ___.

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Nazis

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Robinson Jeffers' refusal to support the war effort was declared a tactic to support the __.

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John Muir

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Robinson Jeffers is similar to ___, who also had strict Scot Presbyterian heritage and loved the wilderness of California.

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population explosion

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Robinson Jeffers depicts the California landscape before and at the start of the massive mid-twentieth-century __.

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epics and tragedy

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Throughout his career, Robinson Jeffers was deeply interested in ___ and __.

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Medea and Euripides

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At one point in in his career, Robinson Jeffers was translating __ by __.

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lyric poems

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Today, Robinson Jeffers is known for his __, particularly those that bespeak environmentalism.

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Gary Snyder and Edward Abbey

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What two prominent figure in the environmental movement did Robinson Jeffers inspire?

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Deep Ecology

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Robinson Jeffers is considered by some the be the precursor to the __ movement.

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David Abram and more-than-human world

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The Deep Ecology movement firmly rejects anthropocentrism in favor of a revaluation of non-human animals and what anthropologist ___ calls the "__."

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Inhumanism and Friedrich Nietzsche

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Robinson Jeffers' philosophy of "___" is derived in part from the writings of the German philosopher ___.

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solipsism (self-involvement), anthropocentrism, materialism, and political partisanship

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Inhumanism rejects humankind's __ and __, as well as ___ and ___.

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Charles Bukowski and Czeslaw Milosz

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Robinson Jeffers inspired poets such as ___ and Nobel-Prize winning Polish poet __.

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Japan and Eastern Europe

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Robinson Jeffers remains quite popular in __ and __.

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1950

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When was Jorie Graham born?

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Boylston Professor at Harvard University

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What was her occupation?

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Creative writing and literature

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What did she teach?

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Seamus Harvey

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What Irish poet and Nobel prize winner did replace as Boylston Professor?

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New York and Sorbonne

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Born into a privileged family and raised overseas and in ____, Graham studied at the _____. in Paris.

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The Dream of a Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-94

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Graham's _________ won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1996.

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Chancellor of the American Academy of Poets

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Graham held the position of ________________________ from 1997 to 2003.

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judge

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She has been a ________ for poetry prizes.

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literary form

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Graham's poems have repeatedly recognized for their innovative use of __________.

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the environment, global climate change, and the increasingly dire condition of the world's oceans

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Graham's collection Sea Change consists of a series of poems about these 3 things:

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2008

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What year was Sea Change published?

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Positive Feedback Loop

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A well-known poem from the Sea Change is __________.

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The Tempest

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Sea Change engages in an overarching dialogue with which play written by William Shakespeare?

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unmapped island

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The Tempest takes place on an __________.

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Prospero; Miranda; Caliban; Ariel

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The Tempest contains these 4 memorable characters:

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1958 and 6

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Perillo was born in ___ and has published ___ books of poetry.

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MacArthur Fellowship and Pulitzer Prize

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Perillo won the ____ and was nominated for the _____.

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New York and McGill University

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Perillo grew up in the ____ metropolitan area and attended ____ as an undergraduate.

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English and Syracuse University

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Perillo earned a M.A. in ___ from _____.

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Fish and Wildlife Services

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Perillo worked for the United States _______.

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Washington and Illinois

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Perillo taught at several institutions of higher learning in these 2 states:

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Western Washington

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Perillo currently resides in _____.

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To a Field of Scotch Broom

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Perillo's work that we are focusing on:

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The New Yorker and Orion Magazine

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Perillo has been published in these two notable magazines: