Haha - I know right! These days I guess the equivalent is emails. When my writing partner Laurence and I email we usually include a few poems - and I always forget about them, and re-discover them later on :-) Aw - thanks for noticing my wee one at the end! Much appreciated.
You're so welcome Paul - and I really appreciate your kind words! It can be tiring doing a newsletter consistently, as I am discovering haha, but comments like this really put the wind back in ya sails! 💜
Really nice post, Dick. I’ll be honest. Though it’s heresy to say it, I generally admire Dickinson rather than love her work (with one or two exceptions - the poem about sparrows here, for example). Your points about suggestion and elusiveness are spot on: I’m always fascinated, but often unfulfilled. Still, I love to be reminded of her work. Thank you!
I hear ya :-) I tend to be a magpie when it comes to poets these days, collecting only what I love so I often have skewed ideas of a poet's work haha, determined by my own idiosyncratic collection of their poems. Dickinson hits more often than she misses for me, but I think the pleasure of having over 1600 poems by her to enjoy, means that no matter how many may miss (in a a totally subjective sense), there are always more stunners to come. And it means getting to see a poet at the very edge of meaning - experimenting and testing ideas endlessly, with abandon - which appeals to me. I learn more reading her work than I do reading more "finished" work, if that makes sense. I guess it's that old thing - you can't forge an entirely new style of poetry without breaking a few eggs haha!
Cheers! Yeah - it's pretty easy to set them up that way :-) If you were still interested in how its done - for the "previous posts displays" just copy and paste the link to the post you want to display direct into the post you're writing - it will make a big version, then go to the top right of the display, and choose medium, or small, depending on what look you want. It excerpts a bit of the post which you can then edit. The "More Poems About..." links are just normal links, to a "tag" page (so I "tag" all the posts I want to appear in that link with the same thing, and then link direct to the tag). Hope that helps! :-)
Letters? Does anyone write these anymore? Imagine receiving an Emily poem in the post. Love your poem at the end Dick.
Haha - I know right! These days I guess the equivalent is emails. When my writing partner Laurence and I email we usually include a few poems - and I always forget about them, and re-discover them later on :-) Aw - thanks for noticing my wee one at the end! Much appreciated.
Thank you for the work you do, Dick!
You're so welcome Paul - and I really appreciate your kind words! It can be tiring doing a newsletter consistently, as I am discovering haha, but comments like this really put the wind back in ya sails! 💜
Love Emily! Hard not to :) And I really love your poem for Emily!!!
Agreed!!!! Aw thanks! :-)
Enjoyed your mini essay here, very nice.
Thanks so much :-) It was fun to put together.
Really nice post, Dick. I’ll be honest. Though it’s heresy to say it, I generally admire Dickinson rather than love her work (with one or two exceptions - the poem about sparrows here, for example). Your points about suggestion and elusiveness are spot on: I’m always fascinated, but often unfulfilled. Still, I love to be reminded of her work. Thank you!
I hear ya :-) I tend to be a magpie when it comes to poets these days, collecting only what I love so I often have skewed ideas of a poet's work haha, determined by my own idiosyncratic collection of their poems. Dickinson hits more often than she misses for me, but I think the pleasure of having over 1600 poems by her to enjoy, means that no matter how many may miss (in a a totally subjective sense), there are always more stunners to come. And it means getting to see a poet at the very edge of meaning - experimenting and testing ideas endlessly, with abandon - which appeals to me. I learn more reading her work than I do reading more "finished" work, if that makes sense. I guess it's that old thing - you can't forge an entirely new style of poetry without breaking a few eggs haha!
I hear you - and I agree with every word. Spot on!
also I really like how you set up your links.
Cheers! Yeah - it's pretty easy to set them up that way :-) If you were still interested in how its done - for the "previous posts displays" just copy and paste the link to the post you want to display direct into the post you're writing - it will make a big version, then go to the top right of the display, and choose medium, or small, depending on what look you want. It excerpts a bit of the post which you can then edit. The "More Poems About..." links are just normal links, to a "tag" page (so I "tag" all the posts I want to appear in that link with the same thing, and then link direct to the tag). Hope that helps! :-)
hey. Iove the Emily.
Yeah, Emily's the best! :-)