"The Most Famous Photograph of Poets Ever Taken"
"Seventy-one years ago this month, this photograph was published in Life magazine and immediately became iconic. Andy Warhol saved a copy of it. In the New York Times, Michiko Kakutani called it 'one of the most remarkable gatherings' of poets in the 20th century. It’s been reprinted in magazines, newspapers, and biographies. It is an extraordinary portrait of American poetry and literature at the end of World War II—both for whom it includes and for whom it leaves out."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Tanya Larkin on Emily Dickinson’s [I started Early—Took my Dog—]
“When I was in high school, I wrote out Emily Dickinson’s '[I started Early—Took my Dog—]' in outsize Goth-y script and taped it to my wall—understanding little of it. I had come across it while doing the dreaded twenty-page research paper for US History, the hallmark assignment of many a college prep school. My teacher was kind. He allowed me to take a patently literary topic and wrench it into a historical one, which is how I found myself leafing through Dickinson’s Collected looking for vaguely feminist poems. This one must have stood out in its forceful expression of utter female power." |
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