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Once more I am overcome by my own amazing sloth and unmannerliness. Can you please forgive me and believe that it is really because I want to do something well that I don't do it at all?

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Elizabeth Bishop

Elizabeth Bishop
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Born: February 8, 1911
Died: October 6, 1979 (aged 68)
Bio: Elizabeth Bishop was an American poet and short-story writer.
Known for:
  1. The Complete Poems (1969)
  2. Geography III (1977)
  3. The collected prose
  4. One Art
  5. Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters
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