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"Starts off as a manifesto but becomes richer and more suggestive as it develops."—The New York Sun
With exacting rigor 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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arthur SHAVZIN
reviewed My Emily Dickinson on April 16, 2015
My Emily Dickinson
I feel as though I've falling through Alice's rabbit hole into a terribly confusing conversation of one.
If I said, along with most of the other readers who have rated this book, that it was inspiring, profound or brilliant I would feel like one who viewed the Emperor's new clothes and in an attempt to appear wise, commented to my neighbor in the crowd how beautifully breath-taking the new wardrobe was. Breath-taking indeed!
When I ordered this book, I was expecting something along the lines of a bio from an endearingly personal point of view. What I got was a mess of thoughts that had very little to do with Emily Dickinson.
I think that some poet-scholars make mountains out of molehills. The author takes E.D. poem My Life Had Stood - A Loaded Gun and tries to tell us what Emily Dickinson meant by it, and then 76 pages into the book gives us 11 possibilities of what the words 'My Life' alone could mean, Only to finally say 'it's hard to know what poets of the past meant when they wrote their poems'. You don't say!?!
I don't profess to know anything about Emily Dickinson, or poetry for that matter, but after reading this book I'm not a hair's breadth closer to being any more enlightened or educated on the subject.
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