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bring me the sunset in a cup

INTERVIEWER

Does this relationship with absence remain the reason why you write poems?

ANEDDA

I write to intensify reality and at the same time to undermine it, as Emily Dickinson does when she says, “Bring me the sunset in a cup / Reckon the morning’s flagons up.” The miracle of this poem…

—p.151 The Paris Review Issue 234 The Art of Poetry No. 109 (148) by The Paris Review