"We used to think...when I was an unsifted girl...that words were weak and cheap. Now I don't know of anything so mighty." -Emily Dickinson
Monday, November 9, 2020
Dickinson in the age of COVID
9 November 2020: "It's like we are living on the dash..." --a (brilliant) student in my Emily Dickinson seminar today, talking about how this moment feels.
As I've said before, everything reads/teaches a bit differently in the age of COVID, but it's hard to think of a writer better suited for these strange days.
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