Question

A poem that this author reveals to be an Octavio Paz translation states, “Memory weaves, unweaves the echoes” and is dedicated to Joseph Cornell. (10[1])In a poem that this author dedicated to her aunt Grace Bulmer Bowers, the title animal “sniffs at the bus’s hot hood” and has “an acrid / smell of (-5[1])gasoline.” (10[2]-5[1])The speaker of a poem by this author describes “the kite sticks of the Southern (10[1])Cross.” (10[1])That poem by (-5[1])this (10[1])author of “The Moose” (10[3]-5[1])opens with a description of “the frail, illegal fire balloons” and is (10[2])dedicated (10[1])to (10[2]-5[1])Robert Lowell. (10[5]-5[1])This author’s collection (10[1])Geography III (10[3])includes (10[1])a poem that (10[1])ends, (10[1])“though it may look like (-5[1])disaster” with the parenthetical (10[2])“(Write it!).” (10[1])For (-5[1])10 (10[2])points, name this author of “The Armadillo,” (10[1])who wrote “The art of (10[1])losing (10[1])isn’t (10[2])hard to master” (10[3])in “One (10[2])Art.” ■END■ (10[2]0[18])

ANSWER: Elizabeth Bishop (The first line refers to “Objects & Apparitions,” a translation of Octavio Paz by Bishop included in Geography III.)
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