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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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My Emily Dickinson

My Emily Dickinson

Howe, Susan
Weinberger, Eliot

Paperback

Poetry Criticism

Publisher Price: $15.95

ISBN10: 0811216837
ISBN13: 9780811216838
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: Nov 15 2007
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.16 Depth: 8.94
Language: English

For Wallace Stevens, Poetry is the scholar's art. Susan Howe--taking the poet-scholar-critics Charles Olson, H.D., and William Carlos Williams (among others) as her guides--embodies that art in her 1985 My Emily Dickinson (winner of the Before Columbus Foundation Book Award). Howe shows ways in which earlier scholarship had shortened Dickinson's intellectual reach by ignoring the use to which she put her wide reading. Giving close attention to the well-known poem, My Life had stood--a Loaded Gun, Howe tracks Dickens, Browning, Emily Brontë, Shakespeare, and Spenser, as well as local Connecticut River Valley histories, Puritan sermons, captivity narratives, and the popular culture of the day. Dickinson's life was language and a lexicon her landscape. Forcing, abbreviating, pushing, padding, subtracting, riddling, interrogating, re-writing, she pulled text from text....

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