{"product_id":"my-emily-dickinson","title":"My Emily Dickinson. Susan Howe","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMy Emily Dickinson\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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….”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"ND BOOKS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47481841189206,"sku":null,"price":15.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0345\/2121\/9205\/files\/shopify_1_16b84311-49cb-4b77-a791-e7db118f61c5.png?v=1704734588","url":"https:\/\/todomodo.live\/products\/my-emily-dickinson","provider":"Todo Modo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}