In a poem by this author, the speaker thinks back on his time on an island that had "fire y-two / miserable, small volcanoes" before calling his current location "another island / that doesn't seem like one"; she wrote that Friday died of measles in that poem, "Crusoe in England."
Correspondence between this woman and a male friend was adapted into a play by Sarah Ruhl and published in the collection Words in Air. In a poem by this author, the speaker thinks back on his time on an island that had "fire y-two / miserable, small volcanoes" before calling his current location "another island / that doesn't seem like one"; she wrote that Friday died of measles in that poem, "Crusoe in England." In another poem, she wrote that she lost her "mother's watch" and "two cities, lovely ones" before saying, "I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster." This poet described Brazilians sending fire balloons into the sky in a poem dedicated to Robert Lowell. For 10 points, name this poet of "The Armadillo" who wrote that "the art of losing isn't hard to master" in her villanelle "One Art."
Correspondence between this woman and a male friend was adapted into a play by Sarah Ruhl and published in the collection Words in Air.
Elizabeth Bishop