tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755123332716147532.post8558145438957931922..comments2023-09-26T08:04:43.755-07:00Comments on Mark Doty: Mark Dotyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04148162515300148887noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755123332716147532.post-27884791197637917622010-02-10T20:03:57.380-08:002010-02-10T20:03:57.380-08:00This was my first time reading this ED poem. Whil...This was my first time reading this ED poem. While reading that final stanza, I realized I was holding my breath. I must read more of her. Every time I do - when she is writing about love and pain - I am seized. The one: "As freezing persons recollect the snow-- First chill, then stupor then, then the letting go." Mark, your commentary is most beautiful as well. Oh how I would love to be in your class. Short of that, can you recommend a good ED book to me?Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13077824763777581173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755123332716147532.post-21230524485264482972010-02-09T18:23:38.269-08:002010-02-09T18:23:38.269-08:00nice reading, Kathleen, yes.nice reading, Kathleen, yes.Mark Dotyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04148162515300148887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755123332716147532.post-34501258417803150842010-02-09T15:52:04.746-08:002010-02-09T15:52:04.746-08:00I agree about all the energy and ambiguity in that...I agree about all the energy and ambiguity in that last stanza, and your various possibilities for "flings in Paradise" but I think it might also mean that after all this hummingbird-like darting about with hints of the divine...it (I use "it" here with Emily's generally divine "it" vagueness!) finally flings [one] in Paradise, however frightened one might be to go there!Kathleenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06559881249054540947noreply@blogger.com