Packet B: Tossup 16

The narrator describes a river that has “two shores: / the one in hell, the other / in [this US state]” in a poem titled for a (10[1])[emphasize] neighboring state’s “Oldest Whorehouse.” Sons who “grow suicidally beautiful” appear in a poem titled “Autumn Begins in” (-5[1])a town in this (10[1])state. This was the home state of the poet of The Branch Will Not Break, (-5[1])James Wright, (10[1])who contributed to a literary magazine (-5[1])founded at a college in this state (10[1])by John Crowe Ransom. (10[2]-5[1])In a story, (-5[2])a teacher’s tendency (-5[1])to caress his students (10[1])forces him to flee (10[2])[emphasize] to (10[1])this state (10[2]-5[1])and change his name (10[1]-5[1])from Adolph (10[1])Myers. (10[1])Wing Biddlebaum (10[1])appears in a collection set in this (10[1])state (10[1])introduced as a “Book (10[1])of the Grotesque.” (10[1])For 10 points, (10[2])the story “Hands” appears (10[1])in a Sherwood Anderson (10[2])collection (10[3])set (10[2])in what (10[2])state’s (10[3])fictional (10[1])town of (10[1])Winesburg? (10[4])■END■ (10[8])

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