The infinite in person: Levinas and Dickinson

Different spaces require novel forms of navigation. It will be one thing to wade through a sea of graves, another to grope up a mountain, and yet something else to “Come!” into a “shining place.” Through multiple forms of movement (standing, falling, crawling, kneeling, circling) and despite all the possibilities for spaces opening up and closing in around us, Dickinson expresses a curious, fragile hope. It is the hope found in space being unstable, ambiguous, and open. No place is secure or final, and Dickinson chronicles the effort required to keep moving through uncharted territory, to rise to the next day and acclimate to the next season.