Robert Hershon

The city from the side

by Keith Taylor

posted 3/1/2006

Emily Dickinson told us that poets should tell the truth but tell it slant, in the belief that coming toward something from the side, unexpectedly, may reveal more of its reality. A variation on this might be that poets — or some of them, anyway — see the world, but see it slant. When the normal is seen just slightly askew, it can be wildly absurd, puzzling, amusing, or

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