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This title in other formats:My Emily Dickinsonby Susan Howe
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Finally, My Emily Dickinson, Susan Howe's singular and unforgettable 1985 creative study, is available as a New Directions paperbook. With exacting rigor and wit, Howe pulls Dickinson free of all the sterile and stuffy belle-of-Amherst cotton wool and shows the poet in touch with elemental forces of nature, and as a prophet in all her radical zealotry and poetic glory. Her Emily Dickinson is a unique American genius, a demon lover of poetry—no neurasthenic spider artist. Howe draws into her discussion Browning, Wuthering Heights, the Civil War, "Master," the great Puritan preachers, captivity narratives, Shakespeare, and phantom lovers. As she chases away narrow and reductive feminist readings of the poet, Howe finds instead a radically powerful and true feminism at work in Dickinson, focusing the whole on that heart-stopping poem "My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun." A remarkable and passionate poet-on-poet engagement, My Emily Dickinson frees a great poet from the fetters of being read as a special female neurotic, and sets her against a fiery open sky where "Perception of an object means loosing and losing it...only Mutability certain." My Emily Dickinson won The Before Columbus Foundation Book Award. Book News Annotation:Poet Howe originally published this monograph in 1985, when,
according to Eliot Weinberger in this reissue's new preface, the
complexities of Emily Dickinson's writing "tended to be lost" to
focus on the poet's neuroses and spinster life. Howe considers the
intent of Dickinson's unusual capitalization and punctuation,
responds to other critical interpretations, and frames her work in
context to that of other figures including Elizabeth Barrett Browning
and Jonathan Edwards.
Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) About the AuthorSusan Howe was born in Boston, on June 10, 1937, and grew up in Cambridge, MA. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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