Susan Howe

My Emily Dickinson (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

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

For Wallace Stevens, "Poetry is the scholar's art." Susan Howetaking the poet-scholar-critics Charles Olson, H.D., and William Carlos Williams (among others) as her guidesembodies 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 stooda 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Directions
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780811223348
• Artikelnr.: 59588823

Autorenporträt

Susan Howe has won the Bollingen Prize, the Frost Medal, and the Griffin Award. She is the author of such seminal works as Debths, That This, The Midnight, My Emily Dickinson, The Quarry, and The Birthmark.