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"Why should I be my aunt, or me, or anyone? What similarities boots, hands, the family voice I felt in my throat, or e…"

"From a magician's midnight sleeve the radio-singers distribute all their love-songs over the dew-wet lawns."

"The armored cars of dreams contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing."

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"I love Elizabeth Bishop, and I think that in Latin America she's really well known. I think she's much more well know…"

"I love poets who bring together poetry and life in all its motion: Neruda, Forché, Cardenal, Dugan, Bishop"

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