She was the single artificer of the world

artifice
noun [C or U] FORMAL

ruse: a deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture)
trickery or craft, skill, ingenuity
n.技巧；詭計




━━ n. 策略; 謀略; 技巧, くふう （device）.
ar・tif・i・cer
　━━ n. 技術家; 【英陸海軍】技術兵; 名工; 職人; 製作者.
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(the use of) a clever trick or something intended to deceive:
Amazingly for Hollywood, she seems almost entirely without artifice.

(from Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)



She was the single artificer of the world
In which she sang. And when she sang, the sea,
Whatever self it had, became the self
That was her song, for she was the maker Then we
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這是 J. Hillis Miller 的 {跨越邊界: 翻譯 文學 批評} 台北: 書林 1995 頁103
({地誌的倫理:論 Wallace Stevens的 "The idea of the Oder at Key West"}The Ethics of Topography: Stevens's "The idea of the Oder at Key West"

原書將 artificer翻譯成"設計者" 似乎太廣幻

前人講"巧匠" (又說maker)
用 "設計者" 便變成需要注解的特別用語