{"product_id":"my-emily-dickinson-paperback","title":"My Emily Dickinson - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSusan Howe\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eEliot Weinberger\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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 \u003cem\u003eMy Emily Dickinson\u003c\/em\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 Brontë, 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\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.41 x 8.94 x 6.16 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 15, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757710672160,"sku":"9780811216838","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/aec2fab99fc32e3ca0a210ea479e5774.webp?v=1780109757","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/my-emily-dickinson-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}