{"id":124011,"date":"2018-04-10T13:00:35","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T17:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=124011"},"modified":"2018-04-10T13:04:11","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T17:04:11","slug":"redux-a-poem-is-a-suitcase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/10\/redux-a-poem-is-a-suitcase\/","title":{"rendered":"Redux: A Poem Is a Suitcase"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every week, the editors of\u00a0The Paris Review\u00a0lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine\u2019s archive. You can have these unlocked\u00a0pieces delivered straight to your inbox every\u00a0Sunday by\u00a0signing up for the Redux newsletter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s National Poetry Month, so this week, we bring you \u2026 poetry: our 2008\u00a0Art of Poetry<\/a>\u00a0interview with\u00a0Kay Ryan; Simon Worrall\u2019s feature on literary forgery, \u201cEmily Dickinson Goes to Las Vegas<\/a>\u201d; and Caroline Knox\u2019s poem \u201cSleepers Wake<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Kay Ryan, The Art of Poetry No. 94<\/a>
\nIssue no. 187 (Winter 2008)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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INTERVIEWER<\/p>\n

What did you mean when you said that a poem should act like an empty suitcase?<\/p>\n

KAY RYAN<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a clown suitcase: the clown flips open the suitcase and pulls out a ton of stuff. A poem is an empty suitcase that you can never quit emptying.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Emily Dickinson Goes to Las Vegas<\/a>
\nBy Simon Worrall
\nIssue no. 154 (Spring 2000)<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

On May 31, 1997, Daniel Lombardo drove from his home, in West Hampton, Massachusetts\u2014a small hill town above the Connecticut River\u2014to the Jones Library, in Amherst, where he has worked as the curator of special collections since 1983. The Jones Library has a privately endowed collection of local historical and literary documents, and Lombardo has devoted much of his professional life to Amherst\u2019s most famous resident, Emily Dickinson. He is the author of a recent study, \u201cA Hedge Away: The Other Side of Emily Dickinson\u2019s Amherst.\u201d He is also a member of the Emily Dickinson International Society, and he was on his way to its annual meeting, with an announcement to make.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Sleepers Wake<\/a>
\nBy Caroline Knox
\nIssue no. 125 (Winter 1992)<\/a><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

Karen made a poem
\nwalking to rehearsal
\nabout children making angels
\nseeing angels in the chimney flames
\nKaren is the tall one
\nwith braids down her back
\nShe\u2019s old enough to be
\nlike a lady and have the braids
\non her head like a princess\u00a0\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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