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Olwyn, the sister-in-law of a woman born to this family, described a “myth” of this family perpetuated by the epistle collection Letters Home. A poem recalls a woman in this family helping her children sing, “Thor is angry; boom boom boom!” during a hurricane. A poem addressed to a man from this family is titled for a god created via Ouija board and describes him as “pithy and historical as the Roman Forum.” A member of this family is told, “no frown of mine / will betray the company I keep” in a poem inspired by a Giorgio de Chirico painting, “The Disquieting Muses.” The speaker tells (-5[1])a man in this family, “I thought every German was you” in a poem that imagines him as “a man in black with a Meinkampf look.” (-5[1])For 10 points, what family’s patriarch (10[1])Otto titles his daughter’s poem “Daddy”? ■END■ (10[2])

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