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Nicolas Sutro's avatar

Loved this piece. I think sometimes feeling around in the outer edge, intimations, is where we should seek to linger. Seems to me that Dickinson feels like a ladder, even when (or maybe especially) shrouded in a veil and difficult to decipher..

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Coffee With Keats's avatar

A ladder, wonderful way to describe her work :)

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Weston Parker's avatar

A shrouded ladder is a solid metaphor for her work. You grab the rungs and go into the shroud.

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Velvet Morgan's avatar

Bloom seems to encapsulate her completely in his descriptions: ‘so cognitively original’; ‘She makes the whole universe her playpen’; ‘hers is a private religion of the self.' Beautifully written❤️

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Coffee With Keats's avatar

So many treasures like this in Bloom. Thank you for this thoughtful comment Velvet :)

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Weston Parker's avatar

I have always appreciated her respect for the big mysteries and her willingness to attempt to capture it or at least capture how profoundly mysterious they are. Good job, thanks for bringing her around.

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