Susan Howe My Emily Dickinson (Paperback)

My Emily DickinsonSusan HoweLabel: New Directions Publishing CorporationDescription: For Wallace Stevens Poetry is the scholar's art. Susan Howe—taking the poet-scholar-critics Charles Olson H.D. and William Carlos Williams (among others) as her guides—embodies 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 stood—a 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....