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The Art of Losing
I do feel like one is aiming for kind of simplicity and apparent effortless quality. And you look at an Elizabeth Bishop poem, like The Art of Losing, Isn't Her Demaster, and it's like a palimpsest. If you look at all the drafts and it seems completely inevitable with the rhymes, but there was so much effort that went into making it look effortless. I joke that my dog is writing for me, my dog Minerva, because she comes and sits at my feet. So my kids always think, oh, my nerve is writing your emails now, Ma.