Round 17: Tossup 16

This material titles a poem that says, “Close your eyes and hear the light singing: / Noon nests in your inner ear,” before ending, “whatever is not [this material] is light.” The speaker of a poem titled for objects made of this material is hit “hard with a club” and “hard also (10[2])with a rope” and names witnesses like “Thursday days and (10[1])the humerus bones.” (10[1])Eliot Weinberger (10[1])translated a poem titled for an object of this material that features a passage (10[1])beginning, (-5[1])“I travel your (10[1])body, like the world.” (10[5]-5[1])The line “I will die in Paris (10[1])with (10[1])a (10[1])rainstorm” (10[2])opens (10[1])César (10[1])Vallejo’s (“va-YAY-ho’s”) poem titled for two (10[1])contrasting objects made (10[1])of this material. A long (10[1])poem titled for an object made from this material both begins and ends, “a willow of crystal, (10[2])a poplar of water.” For 10 points, an Aztec artifact named for what material titles a 584-line poem by Octavio Paz? ■END■

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