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Robyn Sarah “Ask the Poem: On Teaching Poetry” Little Eurekas: A Decade’s Thoughts on Poetry To inspire the kids, I brought in sheaves of my own favorite poems to read aloud. Teachers’ jaws dropped at what I passed around to … Continue reading →

Emily Dickinson I was first attracted by this evocation of a decisive moment in the English-French struggle over Canada: The Battle of the Plains of Abraham, 1759 … The similarity of the general’s responses to death is belied by the … Continue reading →

From Wordsworth Tintern Abbey poem These plots of cottage-ground, these orchard-tufts Emily Dickinson #321 Then quiver down, with tufts of tune – Both I take it looking down upon the scene; both caught by the sight of the tough stuff … Continue reading →

Juxtaposing Emily Dickinson with Jean Genet’s Un chant d’amour and its famous exchange of smoke. I plucked at our Partition As One should pry the Walls — Between Himself — and Horror’s Twin — Within Opposing Cells — I almost … Continue reading →

Could serve as an epigraphy to a set of psychogeographic instructions. The Drop, that wrestles in the Sea — Forgets her own locality — Opening lines to No. 284 in The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson edited by Thomas H. … Continue reading →

Susan Howe in the preface to Emily Dickinson: The Gorgeous Nothings asks “Can thought hear itself see?” From a paper inserted in a copy of the Complete Poems at “Whether my bark went down at sea —” To close one’s … Continue reading →

I Anne Carson Ode to Sleep Decreation The poem describes sleep as a “slab of outlaw time punctuating every pillow”. II John Keats To Sleep O soft embalmer of the still midnight, […] Upon my pillow, breeding many woes,—         Save … Continue reading →