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she was quoted, "'I just write the poems straight out. At first I tried to correct a few and I didn't like the corrections, so I don't do it any more." Indeed, for her quick compositions made on the fly she was nicknamed "the possessed poet"—though it was acknowledged that such poetic production
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referred to her writing as "the fastest scrawl in the west." This method of composition looked down upon with some disdain by literary critics such as John T. Shawcross (editor, critic, and bibliographer of
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