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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. (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 gasoline.” The speaker of a poem by this author describes “the kite sticks of the Southern Cross.” That poem by this author of “The Moose” (10[1])opens with a description of “the frail, illegal fire balloons” and is dedicated to Robert Lowell. This author’s collection Geography III includes a poem that ends, “though it may look like (-5[1])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” in “One Art.” ■END■ (0[3])

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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