{"id":125073,"date":"2018-05-08T13:00:38","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T17:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=125073"},"modified":"2018-05-07T15:39:07","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T19:39:07","slug":"redux-emilys-other-daffodil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/08\/redux-emilys-other-daffodil\/","title":{"rendered":"Redux: Emily\u2019s Other Daffodil"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every week, the editors of\u00a0<\/em>The 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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This week, we help you usher in the month of May with a\u00a0bouquet of archival reads. Learn about John Fowles\u2019s wild-orchid hobby in his\u00a0Art of Fiction<\/a>\u00a0interview; follow the hunt for a flatware pattern in Belle Boggs\u2019s story \u201cImperial Chrysanthemum<\/a>\u201d; and read May Swenson\u2019s Emily Dickinson\u2013inspired poem \u201cDaffodildo<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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John Fowles, The Art of Fiction No. 109<\/a>
\nIssue no. 111 (Summer\u00a01989)<\/em><\/p>\n

For many years, and with rather more success, I have pursued wild orchids all over Europe and\u2014through someone\u2019s kind gift of Luer\u2019s books\u2014in imagination as well, all over the United States. When I was in a hospital bed just after having had a stroke recently, I was near weeping with self-rage and self-pity, reciting a mantra to myself:\u00a0tenthredinifera, tenthredinifera, tenthredinifera<\/em>\u00a0\u2026\u00a0That unpronounceable name belongs to one of the most beautiful\u00a0Ophrys<\/em>, or bee orchids, of Europe. I had come upon it on a Cretan mountain the previous spring; and I was saying that name like a mantra because I thought I should never climb that remote mountain again. Nature regularly brings tears into my eyes; humans very, very seldom.<\/p>\n

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Imperial Chrysanthemum<\/a>
\nBy Belle Boggs
\nIssue no. 192 (Spring 2010)<\/em><\/p>\n

Mrs. Cutie Young lives in two rooms and drives a 1982 Ford Country Squire with the wood stickers peeling off, but her silverware collection used to be worth thirty thousand dollars. I say\u00a0used to\u00a0<\/em>because three weeks ago it was stolen right off the mahogany breakfront while she was out. I also should qualify that her house has plenty of rooms she isn\u2019t using, and it is not Cutie Young who drives the Ford but me, her nurse. I do not know why Cutie has a nurse, or why, for that matter, people call her Cutie. She\u2019s mean and stubborn and takes a long time in the toilet but other than that there\u2019s nothing much wrong with her.<\/p>\n

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Daffodildo<\/a><\/header>\n
By May Swenson
\nIssue no. 127 (Summer 1993)<\/em><\/header>\n
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\n
A daffodil from Emily\u2019s lot<\/header>\n
I lay beside her headstone
\non the first day of May.
\nI brought
\nanother with me, threaded
\nthrough my buttonhole, the spawn
\nof ancestor she planted
\nwhere, today,
\nI trod her lawn.
\nA yellow small decanter
\nof her perfume, hermit-wild
\nand without a stopper,
\nnext to her stone I filed
\nto give her back her property\u2014
\nit\u2019s well it cannot spill.
\nLolling on my jacket,
\nEmily\u2019s other daffodil \u2026<\/header>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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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. 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