NP - E. Dickinson - The Heart Asks Pleasure First

[Mark Thibodeau]

I got a little poem in reaction to that one.

(a throat-clearing "hm-HM")

Right
The Cain Hand
Abel slew
Left
Behind
Left
Holding the bag
Right
The thing that Might makes
RIght
Not asked for
Taken

Thank you! Thank you very much! (applause, whooping and hollering, "BRAVO!"
etc)

Jerky by name
Jerky by nature


On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 4:03 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Publishing miscellany re Emily. She is one of the two greatest 19th Century
> American poets, all agree.
> The other is her stylistic opposite almost, Walt Whitman.
>
> Do you know why he is in the canonical Library of America series of great
> writers and she is not.
>
> Rights fights. Yes.
>
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 8:52 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The Heart asks Pleasure -- first --
> > And then -- Excuse from Pain --
> > And then -- those little Anodynes
> > <https://genius.com/Emily-dickinson-the-heart-asks-
> > pleasure-first-536-annotated#note-2038728>
> > That deaden suffering --
> >
> > And then -- to go to sleep --
> > And then -- if it should be
> > The will of its Inquisitor
> > <https://genius.com/Emily-dickinson-the-heart-asks-
> > pleasure-first-536-annotated#note-4430142>
> > The privilege to die --
> > --
> > Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
> >
> --
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>