"The Crying Book Follows the Many Tracks of Our Tears"
"To insist on anything too permanent is to lay a trap. The kind of metaphor Christle seeks is at once truer and more tenuous. She envisions allowing 'two stories to correspond briefly, to align themselves into one moment as they travel on their separate orbits, to know that the instant of recognition of sameness must not last.'"
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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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