Writers on Recordings: Colm Tóibín on Elizabeth Bishop
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You Are Not the Moose
A student had said to another student, what was the poem like? Yeu said, i was good as far as poems go. She loved bat e th and thought this was the nicest thing anyone had said about her work for a long time. And she began with wath an idea of an exquisite helplessness at the heart of her petic self. So the world has to be described as though it will soon move, and not the things in it will not be there.
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