From Jim Asher, the world's leading authority on Emmett Lee Dickinson (Emily Dickinson's third cousin, twice removed -- at her request):
On December 11, 2017, I attended a poetry reading at the Folger Shakespeare Library dedicated to Emily Dickinson. Literary critic and poet Sandra Gilbert read and discussed some of her own poetry and selected poems of Dickinson’s focused on death and grief.
The next day, I visited the Library of Congress and the East Building of the National Gallery of Art. Have you ever visited the Library of Congress? It has to be the most beautiful building in Washington. Below are pictures (I will post photos from the East Building soon in a future post):
On December 11, 2017, I attended a poetry reading at the Folger Shakespeare Library dedicated to Emily Dickinson. Literary critic and poet Sandra Gilbert read and discussed some of her own poetry and selected poems of Dickinson’s focused on death and grief.
The next day, I visited the Library of Congress and the East Building of the National Gallery of Art. Have you ever visited the Library of Congress? It has to be the most beautiful building in Washington. Below are pictures (I will post photos from the East Building soon in a future post):
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| In my posts about the Folger’s poetry reading, I posed the question, “If you had to present ten of Dickinson’s poems about death and grief, which ones would you pick?” Of course, the poems selected by Gilbert and ten more which I would recommend are included in some of my previous posts – HERE. However, I now have a different question: If you were to select 17 – and only 17 – of Dickinson’s poems to publish in an anthology, which ones would you include? The Library of Congress had a gift shop, and a portion of the shop was designed like a library (no surprise) -- albeit a modest one – so I checked the poetry section to see if there were any books of Dickinson’s poetry. Alas, no. However, there was collection of Great Poems by American Women, and of course, the volume included some of Dickinson’s poems – 17 of them, to be exact. Hence, my question: If you were to select 17 – and only 17 – of Dickinson’s poems to publish in an anthology, which ones would you include? |  |
If/when you are ready to discover which ones were included in this particular book – scroll down! I would say that I agreed with about a dozen of the editors’ choices.
Below: The Library of Congress also had a display of Thomas Jefferson's library.
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If you were to select 17 – and only 17 – of Dickinson’s poems to publish in an anthology, which ones would you include?
Below is the list of 17 poems by Emily Dickinson included in Great Poems by American Women:
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