Violet Cristoforo was honored for collecting what kind of poetry in her anthology "May Sky" ?
Correct answer: D. Haiku poetry from the Japanese internment camps in the US
- A. Love sonnets from the Nazi death camps
- B. American G.I. poetry from German prisoner of war camps
- C. Jewish dissident poetry from the gulags in Siberia
- D. Haiku poetry from the Japanese internment camps in the US
Explanation
Violet Cristoforo's anthology preserves haiku written by Japanese Americans in the U.S. internment camps during World War II. The collection is therefore associated with camp poetry rather than Nazi camps, gulags, or prisoner-of-war verse.
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