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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.” The speaker of a poem by this author describes “the kite sticks of the Southern Cross.” That poem by this (10[1])author of “The Moose” opens with a description of “the frail, illegal fire balloons” and is dedicated to Robert Lowell. (10[3])This author’s collection Geography III (10[2])includes a poem that (10[1])ends, “though it may look like disaster” with the parenthetical “(Write it!).” For 10 points, name this author of “The Armadillo,” who wrote “The art of losing isn’t hard to master” (10[1])in “One (10[1])Art.” ■END■

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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