in Dickinson's writing, "[e]ach word is a cipher"
she performs a "subtraction of the ordinary" which forces a "re-ordering of the forward process of reading"
tune in to "the immediate feeling of understanding" present in the work, and you will experience "a new way of perceiving"
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> from Susan Howe's My Emily Dickinson (1985)
> tagged with #perception, #language, #writing, #poetry
> created Nov 3, 2024 at 9:12:04 AM
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