Walker wanted to sit down and have “class” with everyone after dinner. The upside to this was that he gave his famous Emily Dickinson lecture. So we gathered in the living room at Nine Mountain and sat around the circle-shaped carpet.

He began with giving some general background about her life. This eventually led to his bringing up her correspondence with certain individuals.

Which meant we got to hear the Emily Dickinson Voice.

If one has not heard Walker’s impression of Emily Dickinson’s “soft, breathless voice” which he uses to orate her great plethora of metaphors that comprised her letters, one must certainly do so immediately. He does this when he reads from the collections of letters that she sent to other people, seeing as sister Lavinia burned all of the letters that E.D. saved in a drawer of the same bureau in which she kept her poetry. I might suggest having a copy on hand in case Walker does not have his own handy. Regardless, it is the best reading of what some might consider to be the more mundane side of things.

It was worth it. Really.