“Why not? Why do I have to be such a chicken?” Ron Padgett on writing poems for Jim Jarmusch’s “Paterson”

And speaking of Jim Jarmusch's films, I watched "Dead Man" several times when doing research for an essay on poetry in film. After a while, it struck me that, while there many overt references to William Blake, the entire film was informed by Emily Dickinson's "My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun." I wonder if anyone else observes the connection.  

—  Stacey Lehman