Packet 3: Tossup 20

A poem in this collection asks “Would not those dead throw their last coins of happiness” to a pair of lovers. A poem in this collection that asks a being to inscribe an urn with the words (15[2])“Subrisio (15[2])Saltat” (15[3])opens (15[1])with the line (15[1])“But tell me, who are they, these wanderers.” In addition to a poem inspired by Picasso’s Family of (15[1])Saltimbanques, (15[2]-5[1])a poem in this collection describes a “lament for Linos” (-5[1])after stating (*) “Beauty is nothing / but the beginning of terror.” (10[2])The declaration (10[2])“every angel is terrifying” (10[2])comes (10[1])after the question (-5[1])“Who, if I cried out, (10[1])would (10[3])hear me among (10[1])the angelic (10[1])/ orders” (10[1])in, (10[1])for 10 points, what collection by Rainer (10[1])Maria Rilke? ■END■ (10[2]0[11])

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