Hello and welcome back to Hardcore Literature. How are you? I hope you're doing well.

Today we have a little bit of a treat and a peek behind the book club curtain.

We're talking about the poems of Emily Dickinson and this is a lecture from inside the Hardcore Literature Book Club over at patreon.com forward slash hardcore literature. I wanted to share it with you guys and if you like it,

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forward slash hardcore literature. You'll be warmly welcome and after the jingle, after the show

tune, we're going to talk about Emily Dickinson. Emily Dickinson is a very difficult,

but incredibly rewarding poet. She's the poetess of despair or the Empress of Calvary in her own words.

So we're going to meet her and we're going to start learning how to appreciate her endless gifts.

We're talking about finding meaning on the periphery and finding meaning in pain.

We're talking about thinking in metaphor. We're going to examine Dickinson's strikingly original style. We're going to examine

ideas of light and darkness, mortality and posterity, and telling all the truth, but telling it

slant. On a personal note, this is one of the most challenging yet most fulfilling lectures that I

have done. So I do hope you enjoy it and I would be very interested in

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