Jan 2, 2010
Susan Howe’s My Emily Dickinson meditates on the political, social, and cultural conditions that informed Emily Dickinson’s poetry. Howe’s work, though erudite, is a poet’s investigation into the poetic imagination rather than a critic’s analysis of poetry. Like Howe’s own poetry—or that of Dickinson—My Emily Dickinson defies any easy categorization. Howe’s text is not commentary; instead, it is an assemblage of meditations and citations from other works, compiled in an attempt to reconstruct Dickinson’s reading and poetic...
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