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I cherish the vision of what could have been a great moment in American poetry. One day my American literature professor told our class about Emily Dickinson, the quiet and reclusive woman who was satisfied to live in a circumscribed world in Amherst, Massachusetts.
The angel Gabriel bursts into the life of an ordinary young woman without permission, terrifying her.
Again and again in scripture, pounding hearts become burning hearts.
Neither the journey nor the wilderness comes naturally to Americans anymore.