The Salon Classics Book Group: Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Galway Kinnell begins the Salon Classics discussion of the poetry of Emily Dickinson ...

Galway kinnell There's not a specific something I'm aiming for, but there is something that's almost unspeakable and poems are efforts to speak it bit by bit, like a burden than has to be laid down piece by piece, that can't be just thrown off. Talking with my beloved in New York I stood at the outdoor public telephone in Mexican sunlight, in my purple shirt. Someone had called it a man/woman ...