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The latter includes a number of phrases of which reviewers should be ashamed: "Kafkaesque ... at once thrilling and deeply sobering ... the love child between Jonathan Franzen and Emily Dickinson ... lapidary prose ... it's the first great novel of our...
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I am motivated to enter into the writing of a poem by the need to discover whatever there is in that feeling that's so tantalizing, but at the moment unknown. I'm sort of following Emily Dickinson's comment that "these are my letters to a world that...
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This April 23, 2011 photo shows the tombstone in West Cemetery in Amherst, Mass. , marking the grave of the reclusive 19th century poet Emily Dickinson, who lived and died in a house nearby that is now a museum. The gravestone reads, "Called back," a... View Photo »
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As you get older, every time you read a poem by Emily Dickinson or maybe read a tragedy by Shakespeare, you bring something new to it, so it’s a new work of art. And so with this little poem of mine that I wrote years ago, every time I look at it, as life moves on, it has different meanings and some of ...
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I almost did that, but gave it a reread while waiting around in a parking lot for a friend. So yellow is rarely used, unless we’re talking about Sunsets. The sun was gorgeous in the wintry sky recently. It was this pale, golden yellow that was more...
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The weekend, which commemorates one of Limerick’s most distinguished writers (below), will take place in the city’s Belltable Arts Centre on Friday and Saturday, February 24th and 25th, before moving to the newly renovated theatre in Mary Immaculate...
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Through a mix of blogs and interviews, these pieces will highlight the elusiveness of whatever it is you just can't live without -- whether it's blue jays, Renaissance fairs, fan fiction, or in the case of David Lynch, coffee. If you have an obsession...
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This April 23, 2011 photo shows the house in Amherst, Mass. , where the reclusive poet Emily Dickinson lived and died. Tours of the home and the house next door where her brother lived provide an intimate look at her life in the 19th century and the... View Photo »
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But it isn’t just today’s writers that have a personal obsession with food. We hear about it in Ted Hughes’ letters, see it in Emily Dickinson’s recipes, and imagine it in Hemingway’s cafés. And when I hear about the food that inspired them, I want to...
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Whitney Houston died Saturday, reportedly found unconscious in the bathtub of her hotel room at the Beverly Hills Hilton. Investigation will be lengthy and it may take months for an official declaration of cause of death. It appears, judging from...
About Emily Dickinson
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Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830– May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life. After she studied at the Amherst Academy for seven years in her youth, she spent a short time at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary... Full Article
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This April 23, 2011 photo shows the house in Amherst, Mass. , where the reclusive poet Emily Dickinson lived and died. Tours of the home and the house next door where her brother lived provide an intimate look at her life in the 19th century and the complicated posthumous efforts to...
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This April 23, 2011 photo shows the house in Amherst, Mass. , where the reclusive poet Emily Dickinson lived and died. Tours of the home and the house next door where her brother lived provide an intimate look at her life in the 19th century and the complicated posthumous efforts to...
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