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Elizabeth Bishop — Sestina

Poetry Unbound

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A Poem by Elizabeth Bishop

Elizabeth bishop was one of the most famous american poets of the twentieth century. Her poem mentions an almanac, which is a book that has calendars in it. The elements that she's looking at in this poem take on a life of their own. There's something almost magic like about the ways in which these particular things s in this kitchen take on a somewhat supernatural capacity to speak for themselves.

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