Candlelight Readings Series:

An Evening of Poetry of Emily Dickinson & Walt Whitman on Saturday, April 16, 2005, 8 PM at Revelations, side room

Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, two icons of American poetry, hardly need an introduction.  In this reading, the expansive poetry of Walt Whitman, read and interpreted by Freddy Niagara Fonseca, will be paired to the quiet, yet incisive lyricism of Emily Dickinson's verse, presented by Nynke Doetjes.  A unique blend of some of the best of both poets is being offered by two skillful and experienced readers. Admission is free.

PROGRAM

Introduction 1 Freddy

W Full of Life Now

Introduction 2 Nynke

D 454 It was given to me by the gods

D 613 They shut me up in Prose

D 1212 A Word is dead (four lines)

D 441 This is my Letter to the World

W One Hour to Madness and Joy

W The First Dandelion

D 288 I'm nobody, who are you?

D 333 The Grass so little has to do

D 1510 How happy is the little Stone

D 1138 A spider sewed at night

D 605 The Spider holds a Silver Ball

W I am the poet of the Body, Song of Myself 21

D 629 I watched the Moon around the House

D 1060 Air has no residence, no neighbor

D 1173 The Lightning is a yellow Fork

W I swear the earth shall surely be complete, A Song of the Rolling Earth 3

D 1129 Tell all the Truth but tell it Slant

D 435 Much madness is divinest Sense

W Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand

D 632 The Brain is wider than the Sky

D 657 I dwell in Possibility

W The Base of All Metaphysics

D 1732 My life closed twice before its close

D 341 After a great pain a formal feeling comes

D 258 There is a certain Slant of Light

W The Dalliance of the Eagles

D 712 Because I could not stop for Death

D 449 I died for Beauty, but was scarce

D 216 Safe in their Alabaster Chambers (last, 2 stanza version)

D 280 I felt a funeral in my Brain

W It is time to explain myself, Song of Myself 44

D 917 Love is anterior to life (four lines)

D 1309 The infinite a sudden Guest (four lines)

D 1056 There is a Zone whose Even Years

W A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak

D 680 Each life converges to some Centre

W I know I have the best of time, Song of Myself 46

D 413 I never felt at Home Below

D 324 Some keep the Sabbath going to Church

W Who Learns My Lesson Complete?

D 247 What would I give to see his face?

W The spotted hawk swoops by, Song of Myself 52

D 1142 The Props Assist the House

D 508 Im ceded. Ive stopped being Theirs

W When I Heard the Learnd Astronomer

D 211 Come slowly Eden!

D 277 What if I say I shall not wait!

D 249 Wild Nights! Wild Nights!

W I have said that the soul is not more than, Song of Myself 48

D 1118 Exhilaration is the Breeze

D 306 The Soul's Superior Instants

D 1695 There is a Solitude of Space

W A Clear Midnight

D 883 The Poets Light but Lamps

D 1247 To pile like Thunder to its close

W To Old Age

W Good-Bye My Fancy

The 2005 Readings

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