Question
The 2013 film Reaching for the Moon depicts this poet's lesbian relationship with Lota de Macedo Soares ("LOH-tah jee mah-SAY-doo SWAH-ress"). For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this poet who referenced her time in Brazil with the line "some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent" in "One Art," which claims "the art of losing isn't hard to master."
ANSWER: Elizabeth Bishop
[10h] With her partner Louise Crane, Bishop lived in one of the "three loved houses" described in "One Art" in this American city, where she befriended Pauline Pfeiffer Hemingway and wrote “The Fish.”
ANSWER: Key West, Florida
[10e] Several years after Soares's suicide, Bishop wrote a poem about this castaway from a novel by Daniel Defoe. In Bishop’s poem, this character laments the death of his lover, Friday.
ANSWER: Robinson Crusoe [or Robinson Crusoe; accept "Crusoe in England"]
<Literature - American Literature - Poetry>
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Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
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2025 PACE NSC | 06/07/2025 | Y | 31 | 15.48 | 94% | 45% | 16% |