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Bookends Update: Emily Dickinson - July 9 (Patreon)

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2023-06-05 15:39:45
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2023-07-06 15:38:43
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We're updating the Bookends meeting date for Emily Dickinson to July 9th, after some scheduling changes. This will allow us to release the core episode before the club meeting. 

For Bookends,we are also going to focus on the poems from "The Essential Emily Dickinson," given her body of work includes 1,775 poems.

See:

https://archive.org/details/essentialdickins0000dick

https://www.alibris.com/booksearch?mtype=B&title=essential+emily+dickinson

See the attachments for the poems in question.

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Brad Kelly

I've done a bit of research on "how" to read an Emily Dickinson poem, considering her rhythms, rhyme schemes, and punctuation. When it comes right down to it, nobody really understands exactly what these poems would have sounded like if she read them, but there are some things worth knowing/considering. One is to note the dashes she uses often (sometimes exclusively) uses for punctuation. There is some suggestion that one should consider these to be akin to a "half rest" in music, which would be read with double the pause of a comma. As I'm reading through these (aloud) I've been playing with different schema for the dashes. Sometimes, it seems like if I drag the word preceding the dash the rhythm is quite pleasant. Other times the half rest works well. Sometimes treating the dash as though the following word is interrupting the previous word sounds good. I'm not sure there's a perfect system, but I have begun to strongly suggest that Dickinson didn't mean the same thing with every dash.

Brad Kelly

Fame is a bee. It has a song-- It has a sting-- Ah, too, it has a wing.