A LITTLE MADNESS IN THE SPRING

Selected by Matthew Sweeney · Read by Manon Kahle, Kristi Hughes and Franziska Berg

Emily Dickinson´s work has a timelessness that few poets manage, has a simplicity that makes so many of her poems good for children as well, has a concision and brevity that yet can accommodate the biggest subjects. The clarity and focus, the delicacy of touch, the imaginative leaps of her most distinctive work, the shifts from dark to light and back ? all these are reasons why she is perennially popular, and why so many subsequent poets have learned from her.