
–Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours
“Sumptuous destitution”
is a phrase
scholars use
of female
silence.
Save what you can, Emily.
Save every bit of thread.
One of them may be
the way out of here.

–Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours
“Sumptuous destitution”
is a phrase
scholars use
of female
silence.
Save what you can, Emily.
Save every bit of thread.
One of them may be
the way out of here.
A Loaded Gun: Emily Dickinson for the 21st Century by Jerome Charyn (full text here)
Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson, from one of her Master letters