{"product_id":"my-emily-dickinson-9780811216838","title":"My Emily Dickinson","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor 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 \u003ci\u003eMy Emily Dickinson\u003c\/i\u003e (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 Bront , 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....\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/15\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811216838\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.51lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.94h x 6.16w x 0.41d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2008 pg. 118\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2008 pg. 265\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Susan Howe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36644299210908,"sku":"9780811216838","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_537d0ab1-0ed3-459d-a987-c95fa70bada0.jpg?v=1603858300","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/my-emily-dickinson-9780811216838","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}