danny heitman besides thoreau dickinson emerson who else? what other authors or contained in your edition of norton anthology? well, one writer that i really want to point out is elizabeth bishop, who is just a fabulous american poet who just wrote with such absolute precision about her inner life and, you know, one of the complications is that a teacher can tell you of teaching a survey course as you just cannot get every writer in this anthology. so i was not exposed to elizabeth bishop, third classroom instruction. she is someone that i happened across cross again in this book and i revisited her while recuperating from getting my wisdom teeth out, and i was heavily sedated. i was then allowed in my apartment and there was a public television documentary on about elizabeth bishop and they were reciting long one art, which is about the art of losing. and bishop says, ironically, the art of losing isn't hard to master. and what she's really saying is losing and lost alive can indeed be very hard to master. i was just entranced by the qualit