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Newly Discovered Works

9/1/2020

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I was cleaning out some files in my iPhone's Notes app last night I found some "newly discovered works" by Emmett Lee Dickinson (Emily Dickinson's third cousin, twice removed -- at her request).  I had no notes with them -- just the poems -- so I'm not sure how/when I had planned to use them. Sooo...for now, I just thought I'd share the works below.  

For each poem, I've provided a few comments.  Under that, I've posted the poem by Emmett Lee Dickinson on the left, and then the poem Dickinson's work inspired third cousin Emily to write on the right.


1. "If I could tell how old it is":  In this poem, Emmett Lee Dickinson seems to be talking about some sort of antique?  My iPhone indicated that I added this poem to my Notes app in late June 2019, so was something going on then about some sort of aged artifact or relic?  I dunno.  So with out further ado....

By Emmett Lee Dickinson:

If I could tell how old it is
I should now be so glad –
But when I can’t make out its Age,
Nor figure out its Brand,
I know it is a sign,
That olden Days did see
Now generations further off
From its Modernity.


By Emily Dickinson:

If I could tell how glad I was
I should not be so glad –
But when I cannot make the Force,
Nor mould it into Word,
I know it is a sign
That new Dilemna be
From mathematics further off
Than for Eternity.

2. "I read his sentence -- steadily":  Hmm.  I don't remember why I was working on this poem -- but I'm sure it was related to some statement made by the Criminal-in-Chief since he was voted in by the Klan (as noted in the 8th line of the poem).   I'm not sure there was more research/work to be done on this poem, but here it is as I found it in my Notes app:

By Emmett Lee Dickinson:

​I read his sentence – steadily –
Reviewed it with my eyes,
To see that I made no mistake
In his extremist lies –
The Date, and manner, of his shame –
And in his Biased Form
That “God have mercy” on our Souls
The Klan had voted him –
I made my soul familiar – with his extremities--
That at the last, it should not be a
​          novel Agony 
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But he, and Death, acquainted –
Meet dismally, as friends –
Salute, and pass, without a Hint –
And there, the Matter ends –
By Emily Dickinson:

I read my sentence – steadily –
Reviewed it with my eyes,
To see that I made no mistake
In its extremest clause –
The Date, and manner, of the shame –
And then the Pious Form
That "God have mercy" on the Soul
The Jury voted Him –
I made my soul familiar – with her extremity –
That at the last, it should not be a
​          novel Agony –
But she, and Death, acquainted –
Meet tranquilly, as friends –
Salute, and pass, without a Hint –
And there, the Matter ends –


3. "Of Squad we ask one favor":  This poem, I'm sure, was going to be connected to some information about the Blue Wave of 2018 when "the Squad" was voted into Congress.  I believe I was hopeful that more of the Criminal-in-Chief's crimes would come to light, and that he would be convicted and removed from office.  Alas, it was not to be since the spineless GOP continues to condone his criminal actions.
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By Emmett Lee Dickinson:

Of Squad we ask one favor
That he’ll be overridden –
For what he is presumed to be –
His Crimes, from us, are hidden
Committed his whole Life
Convict and send to Prison
We’ll sing and dance with Happiness
That too competes with Heaven.
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By Emily Dickinson:

Of God we ask one favor,
That we may be forgiven –
For what, he is presumed to know –
The Crime, from us, is hidden –
Immured the whole of Life
Within a magic Prison
We reprimand the Happiness
That too competes with Heaven.


4. "Show me their Unity, and I will show you Lunacy":  Obviously, I was going to post this poem with some post about the poorly educated and feeble-minded cult followers who idolize the Grifter-in-Chief.  They have fallen hard for his con.
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By Emmett Lee Dickinson:

Show me their Unity, and I will show
​          you Lunacy –
Both in one package lain
And lifted back again –
Be Sure – while I am Emmett Lee
Be known -- what he has ever said – Insanity


By Emily Dickinson:

Show me Eternity, and I will show
          you Memory –
Both in one package lain
And lifted back again –
Be Sue – while I am Emily –
Be next – what you have ever been – Infinity.


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Poemdemic 2020

5/29/2020

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From Emerson Nettles, the Executive Director for Development and Expansion:

LINK FOR SUNDAY, 6/21, 3:00 PM EASTERN: HERE

Mark your calendars now for THE online poetry event of the 2020 Pandemic:
THE POETRY OF EMMETT LEE DICKINSON:

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* Tuesday, June 16

* 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time

* Live! (It will be like a live podcast -- but with slides so that you can see the poetry to follow along (so best viewed from your laptop or iPad)

* Includes poetry of Emily AND Emmett Lee Dickinson

* Approximately 30 minutes

* Sponsored by Charm City Books (HERE)


* Encore presentation:  Sunday, 6/21,  3 p.m. Eastern Time

If you're a Dickinson lover -- either Emily or Emmett Lee or both -- you won't want to miss this once-in-a-lifetime event (well, twice if you join us on both dates)!  The links are below -- and if you join us, all you have to do is lounge about in the luxury of your own home and listen...and learn (about Emmett Lee)...and laugh...and libate (if you so desire).

Link for Tuesday, June 16:  HERE


Link for Sunday, June 21:  HERE

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MARK YOUR CALENDARS NOW!

Tuesday, July 14, 7:30 pm Eastern
Sunday, July 19, 3:00 pm Eastern
For links to access the programs, click HERE.

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Lit Up!

4/18/2020

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From Emerson Nettles:

UNESCO's City of Literature program is part of the wider Creative Cities Network, and we are pleased as punch to report that Washerst, Pennsylvania, the birthplace of America’s greatest poet, Emmett Lee Dickinson (Emily Dickinson’s third cousin, twice removed – at her request) has been selected as a City of Literature.  Criteria for the program are listed HERE.
 
Like Amherst is pronounced “AM-erst,” Washerst is pronounced without the “h,” WAS-erst, and if you’ve ever visited, then you, too, can say “I WAS in WASherst” – and if ever there was a City of Literature, then it is Washerst.
 

1. First and foremost, Washerst is the birthplace of Emmett Lee Dickinson, America’s greatest poet.
 
2. Washerst is the home of the world’s Poetry Hall of Fame.  You can visit the Hall of Fame HERE.

Below left: The only extant likeness of America's greatest poet, Emmett Lee Dickinson.  Below right:  The Poetry Hall of Fame.
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3. Washerst was also the home of what is referred to as Albert “Al” Gonquin’s Buffet Booth – a group of Washerst writers, poets, ventriloquists, jesters, mimics and mimes, who would crowd into a booth for lunch each day in the Walnut Room of the Wastoria Motel.   Members of the Buffet Booth and "The Counter Culture,” as they dubbed themselves (since many of the booth’s overflow would eat at the diner’s counter) engaged in banter, chit chat, prattle, palaver, and gossip – much of which would make it into daily tabloid papers across the country. 

4. Many literary grave sites are located in the Washerst Cemetery of the Lettered and Literate, including Libby “Mad Libs” Wâllopkałuża, the creator of “Mad Libs” books; Edison Everett Spine, the originator of book spine poetry; and  Anne Thology, a key figure in the “publish or perish” wars in the world of academia (information about Anne Thology and the cut-throat "publish or perish" world of academia is HERE).


Below left:  The Wastoria Motel, site of Al Gonquin’s Buffet Booth, a group of Washerst writers, poets, ventriloquists, jesters, mimics and mimes, who would crowd into a booth for lunch each day in the motel's Walnut Room Diner.  Below right:  The Washerst Cemetery of the Lettered and Literate.
5. Countless books have been set in Washerst, including Charles Duckins’ A Tale of One City,  S. Fitzgerald Scott’s The Good Goolsby, Leo Toystol’s Corn and Peas, and Hardy Thomas’ Tess of d'Uber Drivers.
 
6. There are countless cafés and pubs in Washerst for want-to-be writers.  For example, the city has the highest concentration of Subways to wordsmiths than any other city in the United States.
 
7. One of the top publishing houses in the country, Ballard Ear Publishing, is located in the heart of historic Washerst on Dickinson Boulevard.  Ballad Ear focuses on works that were in some way influenced by the life and work of Emmett Lee Dickinson.  Many examples are HERE.  
 
8. The world’s largest Festival of the Dollar-Bin Used Paperback Books and Carnival of Classics occurs each July on the weekend before the city’s annual Moss & Hornwort Jubilee (which holds the honor as the Guiness Book of World's Records' longest running annual civic event, held every year in Washerst since 1802).
 
9. Washerst is synonymous with “literature.” 
 
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald said of Washerst, “The city seen from the shore of Dickinson Lake is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.”
  •  Tom Wolfe said, “One belongs to Washerst instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.” 
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “You can get a suit sponged and pressed in Washerst as quickly as you can get a calzone stuffed with double ricotta, Pecorino Romano, ham and pork rinds.”

10. The core identity of Washerst is that of a City of Literature -- and that is embodied by the  Emmett Lee Dickinson Applied Research & Education Center, located on Washerst's Municipal Pier on beautiful Dickinson Lake. The ELDAREC is the premier research center in the world dedicated to the life and work of Emmett Lee Dickinson.

Below:  The Emmett Lee Dickinson Applied Research & Education Center, the world's largest cultural and academic center dedicated to the life and work of Emmett Lee Dickinson (Emily Dickinson's third cousin, twice removed -- at her request).

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Product Recall

4/13/2020

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From Emerson Nettles:

Did you know that Emmett Lee Dickinson (Emily Dickinson's third cousin, twice removed  -- at her request) conceived of the idea of "product placement"?

Not only did he invent product placement, but shortly after he wrote his poem "The Products of my Firm are these" (below on the left), he also established the Institute for Product Placement in historic Washerst, PA.   His poem also inspired third cousin Emily to pen her poem "The Products of my Farm are these" (below on the right).

By Emmett Lee Dickinson:
 
The Products of my Firm are these
Sufficient for to Own
And here and there a Benefit
Are Placements clearly shown.

For Us, 'tis Wilson cast away
With Ray Bans in the Sun
We crave a slice of Domino’s
Once seen can’t be undone.

By Emily Dickinson:
 
The Products of my Farm are these
Sufficient for my Own
And here and there a Benefit
Unto a Neighbor's Bin.

With Us, 'tis Harvest all the Year
For when the Frosts begin
We just reverse the Zodiac
And fetch the Acres in.

His poem also inspired modern-day movie directors to utilize product placement in some of their biggest hits:  a Wilson volleyball was featured in the movie "Cast Away," Ray Ban sunglasses were featured in "Top Gun," and Domino's pizza was featured in the mega-hit "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles."
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Below:
The Institute for Product Placement in historic Washerst, PA -- established by Emmett Lee Dickinson in 1872.

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Social Outcast

3/22/2020

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From Jarvis MacKinnon III:

Historians state that Emmett Lee Dickinson (Emily Dickinson's third cousin, twice removed -- at her request) conceived of the idea of social distancing during an outbreak of yellow fever in 1878.  Others disagree.  They claim that Emily Dickinson, the queen of social distancing, originated the idea much earlier when she took out a restraining order against her third cousin (one thing that all historians do agree on is that the relationship between Emily Dickinson and Emmett Lee Dickinson was quite volatile).

Below:  A sliver of a painting of Emily Dickinson by Alaskan Raven Studio.  You can see and read about the entire painting (and even purchase a print), HERE.


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Of course, it may very well be true that Emily Dickinson invented social distancing because shortly after she obtained a restraining order in 1853, Emmett Lee Dickinson wrote his poem "That Distance that's between Us" (below on the left).  His poem inspired third cousin Emily to pen her poem, "That Distance was between Us" (below on the right).

By Emmett Lee Dickinson:
 
That Distance that’s between Us
That should be Six Feet or Ten –
The Space it is that situates –
Well-being – always then –

By Emily Dickinson:
 
That Distance was between Us
That is not of Mile or Main –
The Will it is that situates –
Equator – never can –

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Plogging Away

3/15/2020

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From Philo Remington:

O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!  This -- yes THIS -- is our 700th plog (poetry blog) post!

Way back in May 2013 we started plogging.  HERE is our first post:


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Of course, our first post was just to say that plog posts would be coming soon -- so our  actual first post about a topic other than the fact that plog posts were coming soon was this one (HERE), about the invention of the TV test pattern (and more): 

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Now six years later we have reached our 700th post -- and what is about? 

A return to TV test patterns?  The current global pandemic?  The failed presidency of Donald Trump?  Important issues facing society today -- like product placement in the movie industry -- or the need for more cat videos on the internet?  The latest in men's fashions (spoiler alert:  leg warmers for men)?

No.  It's about the man himself, Emmett Lee Dickinson (Emily Dickinson's third cousin, twice removed -- at her request).

At a young age, Dickinson started writing daily entries and poetry in journals.  He'd stitch the papers together in bound sets that he would call "journicles."

When Dickinson recorded his 700th journal entry, he wrote his poem, "After 700 hundred posts" (below on the left).  His poem inspired third cousin Emily to pen her poem, "After a hundred years" (below on the right).


By Emmett Lee Dickinson:
 
After 700 hundred posts
Everyone knows the Score
Comedy that’s enacted here
Hopefulness for More
 
Words triumphant range
Strangers troll or praise
At the vast Anthology 
Of posts sure to Amaze
 
Words of Some import
Recollect the way –
Life and times of Emmett Lee
Penned for you each day –

By Emily Dickinson:
 
After a hundred years
Nobody knows the Place
Agony that enacted there
Motionless as Peace

Weeds triumphant ranged
Strangers strolled and spelled
At the lone Orthography
Of the Elder Dead

Winds of Summer Fields
Recollect the way –
Instinct picking up the Key
Dropped by memory –


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Emmett Lee Dickinson's 700th post in one of his "journicles."

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Oral Tradition

1/4/2020

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From our entertainment editor, Q. L. Dickinson:

Do you have any particular New Year’s tradition?

Many in Europe and across the globe attend concerts of the Viennese waltzes of Johann Strauss (info HERE).   Others around the world – particularly in North America – wash loads of laundry, sort their socks, and then throw out any and all of the single socks they’ve accumulated throughout the year.  People in Finland flock to National Parks to rake the forest floors, and others of Dutch heritage exchange dish towels and say, “We zullen dat varkentje wel even wassen” (“We will certainly get that piglet washed”), meaning they will take care of something, fix something or get the job done in the New Year!

Of course, the top tradition around the world at the start of any new year is to read and/or listen to the poetry of Emmett Lee Dickinson, Emily Dickinson’s third cousin, twice removed (at her request) – and that’s just what members of the Dickinson Organization of Poetry Enthusiasts did all over the globe!

This year was particularly special because Jim Asher, the world’s leading authority on Emmett Lee Dickinson, read some of Dickinson’s poetry on North Port, Florida's WKDW world-wide show “Writers on the Air."

“This was the biggest thing to happen in central west coast Florida,” said Rick Johnstone, Senior Intranet Communications Engineer and Marketing Functionality Planner for WKDW, “since Marylou Ward’s toilet exploded when lightning struck her septic tank.”

Below left:  WKDW and the station's Common Grounds studio, site of the "Writers on the Air" program.  Below right: Jim Asher reads the poetry of Emmett Lee Dickinson with "Writers on the Air" host, Emma Feix Albert.  Asher is always quick to note, "I don't look like George Clooney.  George Clooney looks like me."


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Below left and right:  Interestingly enough, the WKDW studio -- which included lots of radio and music memorabilia on the walls -- had two now-classic quotes from Emmett Lee Dickinson hanging on the front desk and the front door:  "I value your opinion, as long as you don't offier it" and "recording quiet please."
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Below left and right:  A Dickinson fan in the audience who knew that Jim Asher would be reading on the program brought two old editions of poetry by Emily Dickinson.  One, from 1960, was listed as costing 35 cents.  The other, a collection of selected poems and letters, included a cover that depicted an angry looking Dickinson -- probably from a time when her third cousin, Emmett Lee, was visiting.

Below left: Rick Johnstone, Senior Intranet Communications Engineer and Marketing Functionality Planner for WKDW.  Johnstone said that Asher's appearance on "Writers on the Air" was the biggest thing to hit Florida "since Marylou Ward’s toilet exploded when lightning struck her septic tank" (below right).
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Below:  Miscellaneous shots from in and around WKDW offices and studio.
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Whitman Sampler

7/13/2019

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From our senior book reviewer, Philo Remington:
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Yesterday I visited Alderman Library at the University of Virginia to catch "Encompassing Multitudes: The Song of Walt Whitman," an exhibit celebrating the bicentennial of the birth of the great American poet.

Information on the exhibit -- which runs through July 27th -- is HERE.  Additional information is HERE. 


An early section the exhibit discussed writers and poets who influenced Whitman.  Of course, the major influence on the poet -- above and beyond the inspiration and impact his brother Wink had on him -- was Emmett Lee Dickinson (Emily Dickinson's third cousin, twice removed -- at her request).

Pictured at the right:  Walt Whitman's copy of "Poems," an early edition of poetry by Emmett Lee Dickinson.

Below:  Wink Whitman's seminal work, Mows the Grass.
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Pictured at the left:  A collection of photographs of Walt Whitman -- the photo in the top left is of his brother, Wink.

Below left:  Information on how Whitman was affected by the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (click the image to enlarge).  The display notes, "were it not for comfort and support from Lincoln’s best friend, Emmett Lee Dickinson, Whitman said he would not have been able to continue writing."

Below right:  An advertisement for an April 1877 appearance by Walt Whitman at New York's Madison Square Garden to lecture on Abraham Lincoln.  The advertisement notes "To Be Introduced by Emmett Lee Dickinson," Abraham Lincoln's best friend.

​Information on Lincoln and Dickinson is HERE.  

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The exhibit includes various copies of Whitman's Leaves of Grass, including the following editions:

1855 -- the first edition.  After reading it, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote to the poet, "Mr. Walter Whitman, I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed....I greet you at the beginning of a great career."

1856 -- the second edition.

1860 -- an updated version that included "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking"

1867 -- included "O Captain!  My Captain!"

1876 -- to coincide with the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the United States.

1892 -- known as the "Deathbed Edition" (published three months before Whitman died).

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​In 2016, scholar Zachary Turpin discovered in the pages of an obscure New York newspaper,
The Sunday Dispatch, a serialized biography written by Whitman, Life and Adventures of Emmett Lee Dickinson.  Turpin described this work as “a fun, rollicking, creative, twisty, bizarre little book.”  Whitman scholar Ed Folsom noted, “This discovery makes us rethink everything we thought we knew about Whitman’s career.”

Pictured at the left:  Life and Adventures of Emmett Lee Dickinson, Walt Whitman's serialized biography of America's greatest poet, Emmett Lee Dickinson (Emily Dickinson's third cousin, twice removed -- at her request).  This work was discovered by scholar Zachary Turpin in 2016. 
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The Write Stuff

4/19/2019

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From our master grammarian & resident logophile, Angstrom Dickinson:

On a recent trip to Chicago, I stopped by the American Writers Museum, "celebrating American writers and exploring their influence on our history, our identity, our culture, and our daily lives."

From the museum's website:

The American Writers Museum strives to:
  • Educate the public about American writers – past and present
  • Engage visitors to the Museum in exploring the many exciting worlds created by the spoken and written word
  • Enrich and deepen appreciation for good writing in all its forms
  • Motivate visitors to discover, or rediscover, a love of reading and writing
  • Inspire the young writers of tomorrow​
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The exhibits are wonderful, and they include -- as their website notes -- interactive displays from "typewriters to touchscreens."

Below:  A touchscreen display in the lobby allows visitors to learn about writers from each of the fifty United States.  The page on Massachusetts includes Emily Dickinson, the Belle of Amherst; the page on Pennsylvania shows Emmett Lee Dickinson, the Bore of Washerst.
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​Left:  A timeline runs above the main exhibit dedicated to the most influential American writers. Not surprisingly, the lineage highlights the birth of Emmett Lee Dickinson in 1803.

Below:  Emmett Lee Dickinson is included in the display of America's most influential writers.  He is line with some of his best friends -- Edgar Allan Poe, Abraham Lincoln, and Henry David Thoreau.

​Click the images to enlarge.

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​Right: 
The photograph of Frederick Douglass at the American Writers Museum includes a year of birth -- but no date listed as a year of death.  Many point to this to explain Donald Trump's enigmatic comments in 2017, "Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is getting recognized more and more."
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Below left and right:  The display on Emily Dickinson.
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Below left (and above right):
  Emily Dickinson's poem "'Hope' is the thing with feathers" is included on the display for Emily Dickinson.  Below right:  Emily Dickinson was inspired to write her poem after reading her third cousin Emmett Lee Dickinson's poem "'Hype' is the thing with bullfeathers."
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​By Emily Dickinson:
 
"Hope" is the thing with feathers –
That perches in the soul –
And sings the tune without the words –
And never stops – at all –

And sweetest – in the Gale – is heard –
And sore must be the storm –
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm –

I've heard it in the chillest land –
And on the strangest Sea –
Yet, never, in Extremity,
It asked a crumb – of Me.
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By Emmett Lee Dickinson:
 
“Hype” is the thing with bullfeathers –
It preaches to enthrall –
It stretches Truth with guileful words –
And doesn’t care – at all –
 
Though sweeter – in the Sale – than sweetest –
More real – than genuine –
It carries no precaution of
Consequence– from Saccharine.
 
New – Improved – Superlative –
It’s magnified and grand –
It charms consumers – senseless –
With sleight of underhand.
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Right:  An interactive display allows visitors to submit their favorite books -- and I was tickled pink to discover that The Complete Poems of Emmett Lee Dickinson was listed as the top pick!
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​Below: 
The AWM's gift shop included finger puppets of famous American writers.  Emmett Lee Dickinson is at the center, left of the photo -- circled in red.
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Thirst Editions

3/23/2019

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From our 19th century historian, Eudora Dickinson:

​I saw this on Twitter today:
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Of course Mr. Atkinson's chart might make one wonder what libations would top a similar list for poets?  

Well, in the case of the Dickinsons, we know exactly what would rank as their "thirst editions."


For Emily Dickinson -- and her sister Lavinia -- the choice would be a keg of beer.  There was nothing the sisters loved more than frat parties and keggers at Amherst college. 
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For Emmett Lee Dickinson, Emily's third cousin, twice removed -- at her request, the choice would be a Margarita, the lime libation he invented!  Information about Dickinson & his delicious concoction is HERE. 
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Of course, Emmett Lee Dickinson knew of his third cousin Emily's fondness for keggers at Amherst College, and he immortalized her addiction to frat parties in his now-classic poem, "As School Bells end the summer" (below on the left).  His poem inspired Emily to pen her poem "As Sleigh Bells seem in summer" (below on the right). 

By Emmett Lee Dickinson:
 
As School Bells end the summer
And Boys, at Amherst show –
So friendly – so flirtatious
The individuals go
Replete with strong libations –
A Party does ensue –
She’s down there in an instant
Till Dawn the Ingénue. 
​
By Emily Dickinson:
 
As Sleigh Bells seem in summer
Or Bees, at Christmas show –
So fairy – so fictitious
The individuals do
Repealed from observation –
A Party that we knew –
More distant in an instant
Than Dawn in Timbuctoo.




​Pictured at the right:
  In 1849, Emily Dickinson wrote to her cousins Frances and Louisa Norcross.  In her letter, Dickinson stated the following:

"There is to be a party at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house tomorrow night.  They say that home is where the heart is ~ I think it is where the Sigma house is, and the adjacent buildings.
 
Vinnie and I will be happy amid this delightful kegger, and well we will drink our icy beers ~ and the world there will be so beautiful, and things so sweet and fair, that my heart will be soothed and comforted." 


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