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“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” During my conversation with Wendy Red Star, I kept thinking about Shakespeare not only because of the alluring way in which Red Star talks about her work as inherently possessing a divine sense of poetry in itself, but specifically because of that famous verse, which references the fact that names do not inherently change who or what we are. But even the most famous poets make mistakes—and this might be one of his.