July 1, 2014
Rowing in Eden
The only Commandment I ever obeyed—’Consider the Lilies.’ (L 904) On my desk: an oiled stone that rests to serve as a reminder of its own heft and weight, and […]
July 1, 2014
Wings
Emily Dickinson brings up birds in some 220 of her roughly 1,800 poems. Mostly she mentions them as contributions to the texture: as an analogue, a simile, a comparison, a […]
July 1, 2014
Hours
Familiarity is one way to think about what makes a home—a dailiness punctuated by routines that give a certain reliability to existence, or at least a perceived reliability. Routines are […]
July 1, 2014
At Home with Emily Dickinson
“There is no Frigate like a Book / To take us Lands away,” Emily Dickinson famously wrote. But Dickinson lived nearly all her life at home, in Amherst, Massachusetts. […]
July 1, 2014
Thresholds
Emily Dickinson entered into this world on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts, and died in the same town, in the family homestead, “quite suddenly” as her friend Clara Newman […]