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The deconstruction of Emily Dickinson. (poem)

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From: The American Poetry Review
Date: 19941101
Author:Kinnell, Galway

The lecture had ended when I came in,

and the professor was answering questions.

I do not know what he had been doing with her

poetry, but now he was speaking of her

as a victim of reluctant male publishers.

When the questions dwindled, I put up my hand.

I said the ignorant meddling of the Springfield Daily Republican

and the hidebound response of literary men,

and the gulf between the poetic wishfulness

then admired and her own harsh knowledge,

had let her see that her poems

would not be understood in her time;

and therefore, ...

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