tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3396545090472393834.post3147190306991674200..comments2023-10-11T04:14:08.735-04:00Comments on fieldspun thoughts: For Emily Wherever I May Find HerBellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11584570172391772317noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3396545090472393834.post-77566039080289773832010-05-17T11:34:14.412-04:002010-05-17T11:34:14.412-04:00Thanks for your comment and link and I'm glad ...Thanks for your comment and link and I'm glad to know of your facebook page. (I would leave my comment there but don't have an account.)<br /><br />Am sorry to belatedly learn that Mr. Charyn will be at NYBG on June 5 - had I known I would have planned my visit for then! Oh well. Like some of your commenters, I too now wish to visit her homestead in Amherst. I wonder if Mr. Charyn might have any plans to give a talk there. I think it would be fascinating to see the place through his eyes - though in a way I have this morning, as I read his essay on the Powells book site, including his wonderful description of how he responded to communing in her room.<br /><br />Also enjoyed the video you posted. I greatly appreciate Mr. Charyn's astute grasp and acceptance of ED's essential complexity. A central problematic that she had to work out was the "queerness" of being different, of being outside a culture that did not understand her. And work it out she did, as reflected not only in her poetry and letters but indeed in every expressive aspect of her life, e.g., her white dress, her proffering of daylilies, her declining to come downstairs for visitors, etc. She was an artist and self-creative in every respect, it seems to me. <br /><br />Emily Dickinson as Muse certainly selected her own society when from an ample nation (and reaching even across the pond) she chose Mr. Charyn. With Mr. Charyn I think also of Flaubert - "Emily Dickinson - <i>c'est moi</i>.”<br /><br />Thanks again for your comment, and for stopping by.Bellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11584570172391772317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3396545090472393834.post-59701322660415721302010-05-16T21:15:19.245-04:002010-05-16T21:15:19.245-04:00Lovely blog post - and we linked to it on our new ...Lovely blog post - and we linked to it on our new facebook page for "The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson" - especially enjoyed the adorable entry in the guest book!The Secret Life of Emily Dickinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11260869904904292715noreply@blogger.com