MY EMILY DICKINSON

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 t han 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. Ho we 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...[Read more]