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- The Emily Dickinson Reader turns every Dickinson poem into a one-liner. Poem 134 becomes: “Hope is kind of like birds. In that I don’t have any.” [1 of 3]
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today’s Very Short List:
lit 23 Oct 2012
on Emily Dickinson, whose work has been transformed into one-liners in Paul Legault’s Emily Dickinson Reader. BOOK PAUL LEGAULT
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- This McSweeney’s preview with Paul Legault indicates that it’s a bit of a joke—a Dickinson collection for those who are short on time. [2 of 3]
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- But as Alexandra Socarides tells the Los Angeles Review of Books, it’s a complex joke—and it can be read in a variety of enlightening ways. [3 of 3]
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- Emily Dickinson images via Wikimedia Commons; cover image via McSweeney’s.
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