My Emily Dickinson

Download or read book My Emily Dickinson written by Susan Howe and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 1985 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My Emily Dickinson" does more than just explore Dickinson's life and poetics, although it does that expertly. It falls in line with a tradition of books of poets writing about poets who have intensely figured into their conception of poetry. This is more personal than a biography in that it is a writer's concern with Dickinson's place in history and what she was trying to do with her poetry. Howe does a wonderful job of trying to get into the poems through playing with language. It's a place to meet Dickinson as a lover of games and words.