Saturday, December 22, 2012

Candles for Emily

One way to introduce (otherwise disinclined) people to poetry is with art about poetry. My daughter found this installation on line. I will have to look up all the poems Emily Dickinson wrote in her annus mirabilis in 1862 (or '63). She wrote 366 (or 360?) poems in 365 days. I don't want to steal this artist's thunder, so read about the beautiful thing Spencer Finch has made here.

This photo is from his website. The patterns in the wax and colors are plenty poem for me. 


It's a bit of a challenge to find information about the annus mirabilis, but of course ED is everywhere

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