A Lovely Wallpaper

Emily Dickinson's "There is a Zone whose even Years" with Lee Ann Brown


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In this episode, Abby interviews Lee Ann Brown, poet and founding editrix of Tender Buttons, about running a small press for 36 years, having Bernadette Mayer as a mentor, setting poems to music, and her own poetry book *In the Laurels Caught*. Together, they present Dickinson's poem 1056, "There is a Zone whose even Years."
Recitation begins at 48:25

1056, "There is a Zone whose even Years"
Emily Dickinson

There is a Zone whose even Years
No Solstice interrupt --
Whose Sun constructs perpetual Noon
Whose perfect Seasons wait --

Whose Summer set in Summer, till
The Centuries of June
And Centuries of August cease
And Consciousness -- is Noon.
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