“The open-ended dash, breathless, was her pause of choice, dashes in all sizes and shapes: short, long, slant, each prying the door ajar. Nouns stand at attention, capitalized and substantive.”
Brenda Wineapple
more infosource: description of Emily Dickinson’s writing, in White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson (New York: Anchor Books, 2009), 75.
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category: Emily Dickinson, grammar, punctuation, writing
medium: Nonfiction
“Considering her inordinate reclusiveness, who then walked Emily Dickinson’s huge dog?”
David Markson
more infosource: Vanishing Point: A Novel (Washington, DC: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2004), 150.
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category: dog, Emily Dickinson, introvert, poet, recluse
medium: fiction
“…if Emily Dickinson owned a restaurant it would be Chez Panisse.”
Jason Epstein
more infosource: Eating: A Memoir (NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009), 132.
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category: Alice Waters, Chez Panisse, cooking, Emily Dickinson, food, poetry, restaurant
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Emily Dickinson