Writers on Recordings: Colm Tóibín on Elizabeth Bishop
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The Art of Losing Isn't Hard to Master
When she writes her famous poem, one art, the poem te villanelda begins, the art of losing isn't hard to master. That idea of loss for her was deeply personal. In the villanell she makes it almost playful. She leaves out the things that matter to her, that she lost. So you can see them im an, that wonderful first meeting where she's so drunk she can't speak. And then when she gets to speak, why se's what she doesn't say becomes more important that they talk about the art of poetry.
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