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Mid-century poets in this language were cultivated by the Blue Star Poetry Society. The contemporary “lower body poets” write in this language, (10[1])also used by the Neustadt Prize-winning poet of the collection Words as Grain whose pen name consists of the same name twice. The journal Today (10[1])published lexically (10[1])“obscure” poems in this language by members of the anti-formalist Misty Poets. (10[13])English-language (10[1])books (10[1])about (10[1])poetry (10[1])in this language (10[4]-5[1])include Sunflower Splendor (10[1])and Eliot Weinberger’s book titled (10[1])for “19 ways” (10[5])of looking (10[2])at (10[1])an (10[1])8th-century (10[1])author. (10[1])A “written vernacular” (10[1])form of this language began to be used by poets in the May Fourth Movement. (10[3]-5[1])For 10 points, (10[1])name this language whose contemporary poets may reference classical forms like shī (“shurr”) and (10[1])■END■ (10[15]0[2])

ANSWER: written vernacular Chinese [or Classical Chinese; or Literary Chinese; accept Mandarin; accept Modern Chinese or Standard Chinese or baihuawen or wényánwén or wén or zhōngwén or hànyǔ] (The poet in the second line is Duo Duo. Eliot Weinberger wrote 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei.)
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