Trevor Burrows"Dickinson was expert in standing in corners, expert in secret listening and silent understanding. Bristling with Yankee energy, chained to an increasingly demanding agoraphobia, she moved through that particular mole of nature in her -- she studied Terror. Adopted parataxis and rupture to tell the feverish haste, the loss, to warn of storm approaching -- Brute force, mechanism. Cassandra was a woman. All power, including the power of Love, all nature, including the nature of Time, is utterly unstable."
-- Susan Howe, from *My Emily Dickinson*
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This is included in *The Difference is Spreading: Fifty Contemporary Poets on Fifty Poems* edited by Filreis and Safford.
More excerpts from My Emily Dickinson are here:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53265/from-my-emily-dickinson
from My Emily Dickinson
DUALISM: Pythagoras said that all things were divisible into two genera, good and evil; in the genus of good things he classified all perfect things such as light, males, repose, and so forth, whereas in the genus of evil he classified darkness, females, and so forth. Soul under stress, thread ofโฆ
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