Another of this author's poems begins with the exclamation "
In one of this author's poems, a man on a balcony distributes crumbs of bread and drops of coffee to a waiting crowd, causing the speaker to fantasize about sitting on the balcony of a beautiful villa and drinking gallons of coffee. Another of this author's poems begins with the exclamation "Oh, but it is dirty!" and observes that "Somebody arranges the rows of cans so that they softly say ESSO-SO-SO-SO to high-strung automobiles. Somebody loves us all." A third of this author's poems compares sea water to "what we imagine knowledge to be, dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free" and "since our knowledge is historical, flowing, and flown." This author of "A Miracle for Breakfast," "Filling Station," and "At the Fishhouses" lived for many years in Brazil with her lover Lota de Mercedo Soares, and wrote the poetry collections Geography III, A Cold Spring, and Questions of Travel. For 10 points, name this American poet who wrote "the art of losing isn't hard to master" in her villanelle "One Art."
In one of this author's poems, a man on a balcony distributes crumbs of bread and drops of coffee to a waiting crowd, causing the speaker to fantasize about sitting on the balcony of a beautiful villa and drinking gallons of coffee.
Elizabeth Bishop