My Emily Dickinson

Name: My Emily Dickinson
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By Susan Howe

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In My Emily Dickinson, Susan Howe liberates the iconic poet from conventional, narrow interpretations to reveal a fiercely original voice deeply intertwined with nature, prophecy, and radical zealotry. Howe engages Dickinson's work with wit and exacting rigor, placing it alongside influences such as Browning, Shakespeare, and Civil War narratives. This biography-poetry hybrid challenges reductive feminist readings and highlights the poet's profound power, particularly through the lens of "My Life had stood–a Loaded Gun." The book won The Before Columbus Foundation Book Award for its passionate, imaginative scholarship.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in poetic biography, feminist literary criticism, and those who appreciate deep, innovative analyses of American poetry and its cultural contexts.

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

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With exacting rigour 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 poetry—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 stood—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.

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Praised as "one of our seminal works of creative scholarship," My Emily Dickinson is lauded for reclaiming Dickinson's voice in American literary criticism. Michael Palmer commends its innovative scholarship, while Elizabeth Willis praises its visionary criticism that reveals the poems' explosive modern power. Richard Sieburth highlights Howe's articulation of uncertainty and complex literary history in America's cultural dialogue.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780811216838

Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 November 2007

Country: United States

Imprint: New Directions Publishing Corporation

Contributors:

Introduction by Eliot Weinberger

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 13.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 231.0mm

Weight: 207g

Pages: 160

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About the Author

Author of more than a dozen books of poetry and two of literary criticism, Susan Howe's recent collection of poems That This, published by New Directions won the Bollingen Prize in 2011. Her earlier critical study, My Emily Dickinson, was re-issued in 2007 with an introduction by Eliot Weinberger. Three CDs in collaboration with the musician/composer David Grubbs, Thiefth, Souls of the Labadie Tract, and Frolic Architecture were released on the Blue Chopsticks label (2005; 2011). Howe held the Samuel P. Capen Chair in Poetry and the Humanities at the State University New York at Buffalo until her retirement in 2007. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999 and served as a Chancellor to the Academy of American Poets between 2000-2006. In fall, 2009 she was awarded a Fellowship to the American Academy at Berlin. Grenfell Press published a fine press edition of "Frolic Architecture with photographic prints by James Welling in 2009. Recently she was an Artist In Residence at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. In October, 2013 her word collages were exhibited at the Yale Union in Portland, Oregon, and in the Whitney Biennial Spring, 2014. A limited press edition of Tom Tit Tot (the word collages which amount to a series poem) with art work by R.H. Quaytman has just been published by MoMA in New York, and Spontaneous Particulars:The Telepathy of Archives, (2014) published by Christine Burgin and New Directions. Eliot Weinberger (b. NYC, 1949), is an essayist and translator. He won PEN's first Gregory Kolovakos Award for promoting Hispanic literature in the US, and he is America's first literary writer to receive Mexico's Order of the Aztec Eagle. He lives in New York City.