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Open Me Carefully : Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters To Susan Huntington Dickinson (98 Edition)

by Emily Dickinson

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For the first time, selections from Emily Dickinson's thirty-six year correspondence to her neighbor and sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Dickinson, are compiled in a single volume. Open Me Carefullyinvites a dramatic new understanding of Emily Dickinson's life and work, overcoming a century of censorship and misinterpretation.

For the millions of readers who love Emily Dickinson's poetry, Open Me Carefullybrings new light to the meaning of the poet's life and work. Gone is Emily as lonely spinster--here is Dickinson in her own words, passionate and fully alive.

"With spare commentary, Smith ... and Hart ... let these letters speak for themselves. Most important, unlike previous editors who altered line breaks to fit their sense of what is poetry or prose, Hart and Smith offer faithful reproductions of the letters'genre-defying form as the words unravel spectacularly down the original page."-Renee Tursi, The New York Times Book Review

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A compilation of selections from Emily Dickinson's 36-year correspondence to her neighbor and sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Dickinson, inviting a new understanding of Emily Dickinson's life and work. This correspondence brings to light Susan Huntington Dickinson as the central source of the poet's passion and inspiration, and as her primary reader and literary companion. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews@booknews.com)

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For the millions of readers who love Emily Dickinson's poetry, "Open Me Carefully" brings new light to the meaning of the poet's life and work. Gone is Emily as lonely spinster--here is Dickinson in her own words, passionate and fully alive.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780963818362
Subtitle:
Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson
Editor:
Smith, Martha Nell
Editor:
Smith, Martha Nell
Editor:
Hart, Ellen Louise
Author:
Smith, Martha Nell
Author:
Hart, Ellen Louise
Editor:
Hart, Ellen Louise
Author:
Dickinson, Emily
Publisher:
Paris Press
Location:
Ashfield, MA :
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Women
Subject:
Letters
Subject:
Correspondence
Subject:
Women poets
Subject:
Poets, American
Subject:
Women poets, American -- 19th century -- Correspondence.
Subject:
General Poetry
Subject:
Poets, American -- 19th century.
Subject:
Dickinson, Emily - Correspondence
Edition Number:
1st ed.
Edition Description:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Publication Date:
October 1998
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
362
Dimensions:
9.00 x 6.00 in

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