Wonderful observations, Lilith, but of course Dick is not so much a philospher as he is a lector in the Anglican Church. Late Aubade and Running are two of the many favorites I listed on the Dickenson thread. In a review of Robert Francis' Collected Poems, Donald Hall observed "Like Frost, like Wilbur (who has learned much from him) Francis must be read in bulk." So I am delighted that you reread the New and Collected. Your experience of that indefatiguably inexhaustible book matches my own. But now you must read Mayflies. For the salvation of your Soul.
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