Author: Susan Howe
Year: 1985
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Politics, Poetry, Biographies
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9780938190523
9780811216838
0938190520
0811216837 |
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My Emily Dickinson does more than just explore Dickinson's life and poetics, although it does that expertly. It falls in line with a tradition of books of poets writing about poets who have intensely figured into their conception of poetry.
This is more personal than a biography in that it is a writer's concern with Dickinson's place in history and what she was trying to do with her poetry. Howe does a wonderful job of trying to get into the poems through playing with language.
It's a place to meet Dickinson as a lover of games and words.
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