My Emily Dickinson (New Directions Paperbook)

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My Emily Dickinson (New Directions Paperbook)

"Starts off as a manifesto but becomes richer and more suggestive as it develops."â€”The New York Sun

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 poetryâ€”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 stoodâ€”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.

Country	USA
Author	Susan Howe
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	Reissue
EISBN	9780811223348
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	New Directions
Manufacturer	New Directions
NumberOfPages	164
PublicationDate	2007-11-15
Publisher	New Directions
ReleaseDate	2013-11-15
Studio	New Directions

My Emily Dickinson (New Directions Paperbook)

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