The Slave Is Gone: The Show That Talks Back to AppleTV+'s Dickinson

S1E9: "Huge, cosmic kinds of leaps" w/Tracy K. Smith


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A solar eclipse darkens the skies over Amherst. Is it a miracle of God's creation? A disturbing omen? Or just a great place to take a date? 

In the series' most emotionally wrenching episode so far, Emily grapples with all these possibilities — and ends up begging Death to let Ben live. 

Breezy, Jericho, and Aífe, joined by special guest and two-time US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, talk back to Season 1, Episode 9 of Dickinson: "'Faith' Is a Fine Invention." 

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Poems featured in the episode: 

I’m “wife”—I’ve finished that by Emily Dickinson 

Once or twice or three times, I saw something by Marie Howe 

The Angels by Tracy K. Smith 

“Faith” is a fine invention by Emily Dickinson

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The Slave Is Gone: The Show That Talks Back to AppleTV+'s DickinsonBy Jericho Brown, Brionne Janae, and Aífe Murray

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