About this title: 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 ...
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Edition: Illustrated.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780938190523ISBN:0938190520
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 144 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Bk is clean & tight cvrs bright slight rubbing no creasing at spine. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: New Directions
Date Published: 2007-11-30
ISBN-13:9780811216838ISBN:0811216837
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780811216838. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780811216838ISBN:0811216837
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Edition: Reprint
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions, New York
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780811216838ISBN:0811216837
Description: NEW. 144pp. Octavo [22.5cm] Paperback. Pictorial Wraps. NEW. From the back cover: "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 has stood--a Loaded Gun, ' Howe tracks Dickens, Browning, Emily Bronte, Shakespeare, and Spenser, as well as local Connecticut River Valley histories, Puritan sermons, captivity narratives, and the popular culture ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, California
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780938190523ISBN:0938190520
Description: Near Fine in softcover. 23 by 16 cm. 144 pages. Trade size. Pictorial cover. Original price sticker on front cover. Bright, clean. read more
Edition: Reissue
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780811216838ISBN:0811216837
Description: 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... read more
Description: New. 1995 Paperback. Keywords: "Subjects-Biography-Women, Subjects-Biography-Novelists, Poets & Playwrights-Poets, Subjects-Poetry, Drama & Criticism-History & Criticism-Literary Studies, Special Features-Search Insid" Not a first edition copy. All books in stock. We ship daily from our warehouse. Over 200, 000 customers served online! Our feedback reflects our service...."Fast delivery, great seller", "Fantastic, came right away and was in perfect condition--thanks! " read more
"Reread this last week. And reread the poems and began to see why certain narratives are brought in, just a mention of their name in a poem is enough to bring in a discussion from Howe. Examples: Bronte, Daniel Boone. The eyeshine story about Daniel Boone's wife seems to correspond with something popularly held about Dickinson. I was always a little off balance about the number of historical figures that drive Howe's book. They come and go very casually, without much introduction. That's a very smart thing to do in retrospect. I didn't know the poems well enough when I first read her book to appreciate the sweep of what Howe was doing. It feels like the namedropping in Dickinson was part of early work, don't know if it persisted all the way through. Going through all of it, the later poems shorten and can be sped through, maybe the last 500 poems take a few hours, where the first 1300 took four or five days. I'll reread Howe's book again in a few months to see what can get better."
"Yes, I shelve this under contemporary poetry, because, for me, its merit is not in the critical picture it creates of Emily Dickinson. I'd be bold as to say that is not its argument. Instead, it is a poetic picture of Susan Howe, and her personal, and possessive, reading of Dickinson's work. That we might all have this generous literary constellation on reading Dickinson, or any poet."
"Will we ever tire of ED analysis? Short answer: no. Long answer: no...definitely not!
And why should we? Dickinson is more than just unseen Moors, much as she liked them (Wuthering Heights).
My Emily Dickinson engages in the kind of literary decoupage it credits Dickinson with, thereby keeping its own word. Also, the form & style of the book are just...cool. Pure & simple."
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