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In a set of poems titled for this practice, the speaker hopes for “clouds of thy sweet Vapour” to “circumcise” his eyes before asking “shall spirits thus my Mammularies Suck?” Louis Martz’s work on the “poetry of” this practice traces Edward Baxter’s influence on a collection of over 200 poems titled for this practice, such as “I am the Living Bread,” that were discovered at Yale in the 1930s. This practice titles a poem that declares, “I can’t even enjoy a blade of grass unless (15[1])I know there’s a (*) subway (10[1])handy, (10[1]-5[1])or a record store.” A poet who wrote several essays about Edward Taylor’s (-5[1])“preparatory” works titled for this practice (10[1])also used it (10[1])to title (10[1])a poem (10[1])that opens, “all the new thinking is about loss.” (10[2])This practice “in an Emergency” (10[2])titles Frank O’Hara’s follow-up to Lunch Poems. (-5[1])For 10 (10[1])points, a Robert Hass poem set at Lagunitas is titled for what devotional (10[1])practice? ■END■ (10[1]0[1])

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