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

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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