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Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson

Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson

Smith, Martha Nell
Hart, Ellen Louise

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Publisher Price: $21.95

ISBN10: 0963818368
ISBN13: 9780963818362
Publisher: Paris Press
Published: Oct 1 1998
Pages: 362
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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 Carefully invites 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 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.

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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