About this title: Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the man of letters to whom Emily Dickinson first entrusted her poems, was dumbfounded by them, and asked, "What place ought to be assigned in literature to what is so remarkable, yet so elusive of criticism?" His question was answered only after Dickinson's death in 1886: she is now considered one of America's greatest poets. Her terse, oblique, visionary poems--only 10 of which were published in her lifetime--have almost no relation to the conventions of the second half of the 19th century, when they were written. The poems play adventurously with meter and rhyme ...
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Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Heavy corner and edge wear. No marks. Tight, square book. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 400 p. Contains: Illustrations. Barnes & Noble Classics (Paperback). Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Fine. 1566190304 Not a used copy....Some surface and edge wear. Inside pages clean, binding tight. No remainder marks. Shipped with delivery confirmation inside US. Selling books since 1979*p/$BN-F4-78. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Gramercy
Date Published: 1988-11-30
ISBN-13:9780517362426ISBN:0517362422
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. No tears or chips to the DJ, inscription on endpaper else interior clean and bright, binding tight, a wonderful copy throughout. read more
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Description: Very good. Book has appearance of light use with no easily noticeable wear. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
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"i've been reading these for years. there have always been a few that took me by surprise, but lately i find this whole collection to be a really astonishing experiment in language - it's taken me years to see how modern she is (for you dickinson fans, i'm sure you're saying, well, DUH!). i say this because her work really is a kind of minimalism. she seems to to have more patience than most poets. she waits until the perfect formation of sounds and meanings emerge in just the right crystalline formation, and then she stops. and if you are also patient, you begin to see how perfectly each one is shaped, conceived, delivered. i also applaud her for never using titles...the poems are all numbered."
"Emily Dickinson articulates my own thoughts and feelings in a way I never could. She manifests my ideal. She validates my existence. If you like Emily, I like you.
I hide myself within my flower, That wearing on your breast, You, unsuspecting, wear me too- And angels know the rest.
I hide myself within my flower, That, fading from your vase, You, unsuspecting, feel for me Almost a loneliness."
"This book was a birthday present -- a few birthdays ago now -- from Ryan Hickerson. It's one of the best birthday presents I've ever received. It will probably be under "currently-reading" forever because it's the kind of book I pick through and thumb through and browse through, sometimes systematically, sometimes not, and the poems are always new each time. That's partially because I have a terrible memory, and partially because I age and they change for me, and partially because the writing is just so good.
There's one, not necessarily my favorite, but perhaps a favorite, that makes me think of childhood and my little boys:
Before the ice is in the pools-- Before the skaters go, Or any cheek at nightfall Is tarnished by the snow--
Before the fields have finished, Before the Christmas tree, Wonder upon wonder Will arrive to me!
What we touch the hems of On a summer's day -- What is only walking Just a bridge away--
That which sings so -- speaks so -- When there's no one here-- Will the frock I wept in Answer me to wear?"
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