A retirement poem? Or for Americans more generally? After Dickinson wrote two thousand poems and that didn’t quite work – Though, yes, it worked spectacularly for readers born after she died – After she had baked so many loaves… Read More ›
Emily Dickinson
Dickinson — Sex, Spanish, Stew
Emily, in not so foreign tongues Reblogged from Zeteo The first law of American literature: Somewhere, somehow, in God only knows what language, you are always going to come across one more, intriguing—if not indeed great—Emily Dickinson poem…. Read More ›
This is my letter to the future
This is my letter to the future, That cannot write to me,— The simple news that Nature told, With tender majesty. Her message is committed To hands I cannot see; For love of her, sweet citizens, Behave more tenderly! {All… Read More ›
On the Unexpected
{for the pdf click} 1 When she was 11, Emily Dickinson sent the following letter to a friend: “My Plants grow beautifully — you know that elegant old Rooster that Austin thought so much of — the others fight… Read More ›
The Way
FROM SEQUENCE 2012 April 2012 [Click for pdf] I once read a book on love written by an Italian sociologist. In contrast to the guides then popular in the United States, this book suggested that we fall in love not… Read More ›
Between walls and heads
FROM SEQUENCE 2013 May 2013 In The Genealogy of Morals (as translated by Francis Golffing), Nietzsche writes about how as a man divinely abstracted and self-absorbed into whose ears the bell has just drummed the twelve strokes of noon will… Read More ›
The Bravest Grope a Little
LISTENING FOR THE UNCONSCIOUS III October 2012 Not knowing where I’m going, I make another list. This one has five items, or points, like a star. (1) There is an elderly woman who, while or although suffering from Alzheimer’s, spends… Read More ›
