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Please consult this article to learn more about the [[Emily Dickinson Birthday Tribute]].
Please consult this article to learn more about the [[Emily Dickinson Birthday Tribute]].


===From "Evolution"===
===From ''Evolution''===
   
   
What I want is to sleep away an epoch,
What I want is to sleep away an epoch,

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Lucie Brock-Broido is the director of poetry in the Writing Division in the School of the Arts at Columbia University. Her books of poetry include Trouble in Mind, A Hunger, and The Master Letters, inspired by three mysterious, unsent letters written by Emily Dickinson and found after her death.

Visit her Poetry Foundation page for more information.

Please consult this article to learn more about the Emily Dickinson Birthday Tribute.

From Evolution

What I want is to sleep away an epoch,

wake up as a girl with another kind of heart.


From A Hunger by Lucie Brock-Broido. Copyright 1988 by Lucie Brock-Broido. (Knopf). Reprinted with the permission of the author.