{"product_id":"my-emily-dickinson-by-susan-howe-9780811216838","title":"My Emily Dickinson","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHowe draws into her discussion Browning, \u003cem\u003eWuthering Heights\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA remarkable and passionate poet-on-poet engagement, \u003cem\u003eMy Emily Dickinson\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\" \u003cem\u003eMy Emily Dickinson\u003c\/em\u003e won The Before Columbus Foundation Book Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47603034194156,"sku":"9780811216838","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780811216838-my-emily-dickinson.jpg?v=1778054093","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/my-emily-dickinson-by-susan-howe-9780811216838","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}