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Austin and Mabel: The Amherst Affair and Love Letters of Austin Dickinson and Mabel Loomis Toddby Polly Longsworth, Mabel Loomis Todd, Austin DickinsonISBN 1558492151 (1-55849-215-1)
Softcover, Univ of Massachusetts Pr
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Autobiography of Redby Anne CarsonISBN 037570129X (0-375-70129-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Autobiography of Red'Book summary:Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red is a novel in verse, the author's first. A classicist by profession as well as a poet, Carson has drawn on antiquity for her cast, updating the myth of Geryon and Herakles. In the original version, of course, Herakles killed the red-skinned, winged Geryon. In Carson's very contemporary retelling, he merely inspires, but does not return, the monster's passion. By choosing Geryon as her central character, Carson can bring up the questions of existence as if they hadn't been asked before. After all, the monster's instincts have not been numbed by civilization. Fires twist through him. We feel the pain of learning the most elementary things, and then the volcanic intensity that comes with that more advanced thing, love. Yet Carson doesn't so much tell the story of Geryon's love as mediate his very being through semiological surfaces: cafes, video stores, lipstick, a library where he shelves government documents with a "forlorn austerity, / tall and hushed in their ranges as veterans of a forgotten war." Carson seldom satisfies herself with an image of the world. Instead she atomizes the world, leaving it broken down, refracted, and glinting. At times her verbal pyrotechnics manage to render pure energy:
A little button at the end of each range activated the fluorescent track above it.
No novelist could have gotten away with that last line. Yet it's very much to the point: Carson's Geryon is, among other things, a camera freak who doesn't understand that an observer must inevitably alter the nature of the thing observed. Here is Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, cheek-by-jowl with the ancients! And indeed, Carson's achievement is to interweave the archaic and the modern so seamlessly that by the time we finish reading Autobiography of Red, the entire landscape looks inside out. --Mark Rudman [via]
A yellowing 5 x 7 index card
Scotch-taped below each button said EXTINGUISH LIGHT WHEN NOT IN USE.
Geryon went flickering
through the ranges like a bit of mercury flipping the switches on and off.
The librarians thought him
a talented boy with a shadow side.
Beneath the Second Sun: A Cultural History of Indian Summerby Adam SweetingISBN 1584653140 (1-58465-314-0)
Hardcover, Univ of New Hampshire
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The Best of the Harvard Gay & Lesbian Reviewby Richard Schneider, Charles HeflingISBN 1566395968 (1-56639-596-8)
Hardcover, Temple Univ Pr
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Bolts of Melody: New Poems of Emily Dickinsonby Emily DickinsonISBN 006011035X (0-06-011035-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Collected Poemsby Emily DickinsonISBN 0762405627 (0-7624-0562-7)
Hardcover, Courage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Poems'Book summary:More of literature's finest works -- completely unabridged. Irresistible prices make these books great for any classics library! [via]
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Collected Poems Emily Dickenson : Cha Rivby Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517415143 (0-517-41514-3)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Collected Poems Of Emily Dickinsonby Emily Dickinson, Rachel WetzsteonISBN 1593080506 (1-59308-050-6)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Poems Of Emily Dickinson'Book summary:The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson, by Emily Dickinson, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences-biographical, historical, and literary-to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1830, Dickinson began life as an energetic, outgoing young woman who excelled as a student. However, in her mid-twenties she began to grow reclusive, and eventually she rarely descended from her room in her father's house. She spent most of her time working on her poetry, largely without encouragement or real interest from her family and peers, and died at age fifty-five. Only a handful of her 1,775 poems had been published during her lifetime. When her poems finally appeared after her death, readers immediately recognized an artist whose immense depth and stylistic complexities would one day make her the most widely recognized female poet to write in the English language. Dickinson's poetry is remarkable for its tightly controlled emotional and intellectual energy. [via]
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Softcover, Random House Inc - The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson: ISBN 0812523385 (0-8125-2338-5)
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Complete Poems of Emily Dickinsonby Emily DickinsonISBN 0316184136 (0-316-18413-6)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson'Book summary:Emily Dickinson proved that brevity can be beautiful. Only now is her complete oeuvre--all 1,775 poems--available in its original form, uncorrupted by editorial revision, in one volume. Thomas H. Johnson, a longtime Dickinson scholar, arranged the poems in chronological order as far as could be ascertained (the dates for more than 100 are unknown). This organization allows a wide-angle view of Dickinson's poetic development, from the sometimes-clunky rhyme schemes of her juvenilia, including valentines she wrote in the early 1850s, to the gloomy, hell-obsessed writings from her last years. Quite a difference from requisite Dickinson entries in literary anthologies: "There's a certain Slant of light," "Wild Nights--Wild Nights!" and "I taste a liquor never brewed."
The book was compiled from Thomas H. Johnson's hard-to-find variorum from 1955. While some explanatory notes would have been helpful, it's a prodigious collection, showcasing Dickinson's intractable obsession with nature, including death. Poem 1732, which alludes to the deaths of her father and a onetime suitor, illustrates her talent:
My life closed twice before its close;
It yet remains to see
If Immortality unveil
A third event to me,So huge, so hopeless to conceive
As these that twice befell.
Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell.The musicality of her punctuation and the outright elegance of her style--akin to Christina Rossetti's hymns, although not nearly so religious--rescue the poems from their occasional abstruseness. The Complete Poems is especially refreshing because Dickinson didn't write for publication; only 11 of her verses appeared in magazines during her lifetime, and she had long-resigned herself to anonymity, or a "Barefoot-Rank," as she phrased it. This is the perfect volume for readers wishing to explore the works of one of America's first poets. [via]
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Hardcover, Little Brown & Co - Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson: ISBN 0848812816 (0-8488-1281-6)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd - Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson: ISBN 0899667139 (0-89966-713-9)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books - Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson: ISBN 0571090877 (0-571-09087-7)
Hardcover, Faber - Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson: ISBN 0316184136 (0-316-18413-6)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
- Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson: ISBN 0316184144 (0-316-18414-4)
Desire, the Self, the Social Critic: The Rise of Queer Performance Within the Demise of Transcendentalismby J. F. BuckleyISBN 1575910012 (1-57591-001-2)
Hardcover, Associated Univ Pr
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The Diary of Emily Dickinsonby Jamie Fuller, Marlene McLoughlinISBN 156279048X (1-56279-048-X)
Hardcover, Mercury House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Diary of Emily Dickinson'Book summary:The discovery of Emily Dickinson's poetry after her death unleashed a series of mysteries and revelations that astonished those who knew her and continue to intrigue readers today. Who was the reclusive woman who wrote these wise and beautiful verses? Slowly answers came and, with them, more questions. Why did Emily continue to seek the advice of Thomas Wentworth Higginson when he never recognized her genius? To whom were the mysterious "master" letters, written at the height of her poetic creativity, addressed? Why did she keep most of her writing secret from her family? Did she hope for eventual fame? Answers to such questions could have been suggested in 1916, when, during reconstruction of the Dickinson house in Amherst, Massachusetts, a worker discovered Emily's secret diary hidden in a crevice of the wall of the conservatory. Unfortunately, he kept the discovery to himself for many years. Only now has this remarkable document, edited and annotated by Jamie Fuller, become available to Dickinson admirers. Such is the premise of this unique fictional work. The diary begins in March 1867 and ends in April 1868. During this span Dickinson recounts the revelations and trials of her day-to-day life, from burnt puddings to professions of undying love. With discriminating insight, Fuller helps extract from Dickinson's cryptic style her views on God, family, nature, death, love, poetry, fame, and her role as a woman in a patriarchal society. Most of all, The Diary of Emily Dickinson is an exquisite account of what it means to live the writing life, to live for poetry. Author Jamie Fuller has given us a fictional diary based on close readings of Dickinson's writings and contemporaneousmaterials, that is so sensitive and sympathetic, so delicately and smoothly written, in a style so closely resembling Emily's own, that one could well believe it contains the private musings of the enigmatic poet. In it, Emily Dickinson comes alive. [via]
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Dickinson: Poemsby Emily DickinsonISBN 0679429077 (0-679-42907-7)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dickinson: Poems'Book summary:The everyman's library pocket poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: dickinson contains poems from the poet's art, the works of love, and death and resurrection, as well as an index of first lines [via]
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The Dickinson Papers: A Funny and Tender Love Storyby Mark RaggISBN 1741665590 (1-74166-559-0)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Dickinson: The Anxiety of Genderby Vivian PollakISBN 0801493706 (0-8014-9370-6)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Emily Dickinsonby Cynthia G. WolffISBN 0394544188 (0-394-54418-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Emily Dickinsonby Cynthia Griffin WolffISBN 020116809X (0-201-16809-X)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emily Dickinson'Book summary:Cynthia Griffin Wolffs brilliant literary biography of Emily Dickinson is the first to unravel the intricate relationship between her life and her poetry. It is a vivid portrait of the poet and her times as well as a fascinating interpretive study of the poems that will enable every reader to approach them with new understanding and delight.[via]More editions of Emily Dickinson:
Emily Dickinsonby Emily Dickinson, Helen McNeilISBN 0460878956 (0-460-87895-6)
Softcover, Everyman
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Emily Dickinson Poemsby Johanna BrownellISBN 0785812849 (0-7858-1284-9)
Hardcover, Book Sales
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emily Dickinson Poems'Book summary:Emily Dickinson is one of our most original writers, a force destined to endure in American letters. In this comprehensive volume over 200 of her major poetic works have been assembled, including "The Lonely House", "Cocoon", "Let Down the Bars, O Death", "Parting", "Autumn" and "My Cricket." [via]
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Emily Dickinson and the Art of Beliefby Roger LundinISBN 0802821278 (0-8028-2127-8)
Softcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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Emily Dickinson Collected Poemsby Emily DickinsonISBN 1561380458 (1-56138-045-8)
Hardcover, Courage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emily Dickinson Collected Poems'Book summary:From the Great Poets series--exquisite small-format collections of classic poetry enhanced by full-color reproductions of period art, and readable, scholarly introductions. 12 full-color illustrations. [via]
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The Emily Dickinson Handbookby Cristanne Miller, Roland Hagenbuchle, Gudrun GrabherISBN 1558491694 (1-55849-169-4)
Hardcover, Univ of Massachusetts Pr
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Emily Dickinson: Monarch of Perceptionby Domhnall MitchellISBN 1558492267 (1-55849-226-7)
Hardcover, Univ of Massachusetts Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emily Dickinson: Monarch of Perception'Book summary:This text challenges some of the more pious views of Emily Dickinson. The author examines her background, letters and poems from a social, cultural and historical perspective, and presents a more complex portrait of Dickinson and her work. [via]
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Emily Dickinson: Personae and Performanceby Elizabeth PhillipsISBN 0271024844 (0-271-02484-4)
Softcover, Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
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Emily Dickinson: Selected Poemsby Emily DickinsonISBN 0517200163 (0-517-20016-3)
Softcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emily Dickinson: Selected Poems'Book summary:Because I could not stop for Death-[via]
He kindly stopped for me-
The carriage held but just ourselves-
And Immortality.
Bloomsbury Poetry Classics are selections from the work of some of our greatest poets. The series is aimed at the general reader rather than the specialist and carries no critical or explanatory apparatus. This can be found elsewhere. In the series the poems introduce themselves, on an uncluttered page and in a format that is both attractive and convenient. The selections have been made by the distinguished poet, critic, and biographer Ian Hamilton.More editions of Emily Dickinson: Selected Poems:
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Emily Dickinson: Woman Poetby Paula BennettISBN 0877453101 (0-87745-310-1)
Softcover, Univ of Iowa Pr
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Emily Dickinson's Fascicles: Method & Meaningby Dorothy Huff OberhausISBN 0271016434 (0-271-01643-4)
Softcover, Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
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Emily Dickinson's Shakespeareby Páraic FinnertyISBN 1558495177 (1-55849-517-7)
Hardcover, University of Massachusetts Press
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Essential Transcendentalistsby Richard G. GeldardISBN 158542434X (1-58542-434-X)
Softcover, J P Tarcher
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Favorite Poems of Emily Dickinsonby Emily Dickinson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Mabel Loomis ToddISBN 0517259222 (0-517-25922-2)
Hardcover
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Favorite Poems of Emily Dickinson'Book summary:Small hard back book covered with a blue book material. [via]
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Final Harvestby Emily DickinsonISBN 0316184152 (0-316-18415-2)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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I Never Came to You in Whiteby Judith FarrISBN 0395874424 (0-395-87442-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Letters of Emily Dickinsonby Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Ward, Theodora (Van Wagenen), Thomas H. JohnsonISBN 0674526279 (0-674-52627-9)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Letters of Emily Dickinson'Book summary:This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]
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The Life of Emily Dickinsonby Richard Benson SewallISBN 0674530802 (0-674-53080-2)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Life of Emily Dickinson'Book summary:Winner of the National Book Award, this massively detailed biography throws a light into the study of the brilliant poet. How did Emily Dickinson, from the small window over her desk, come to see a life that included the horror, exaltation and humor that lives her poetry? With abundance and impartiality, Sewall shows us not just the poet nor the poetry, but the woman and her life. [via]
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The Madwoman in the Atticby Sandra GilbertISBN 0300025963 (0-300-02596-3)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Madwoman in the Attic'Book summary:This pathbreaking book of feminist criticism is now reissued with a substantial new introduction by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar that reveals the origins of their revolutionary realization in the 1970s that "the personal was the political, the sexual was the textual". [via]
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The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imaginationby Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan GubarISBN 0300084587 (0-300-08458-7)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Master Letters of Emily Dickinsonby Emily DickinsonISBN 1558491554 (1-55849-155-4)
Softcover, Univ of Massachusetts Pr
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Measures of Possibility: Emily Dickinson's Manuscriptsby Domhnall MitchellISBN 1558494626 (1-55849-462-6)
Softcover, Univ of Massachusetts Pr
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The Mouse of Amherstby Elizabeth Spires, Claire A. NivolaISBN 0374454116 (0-374-45411-6)
Softcover, Sunburst
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mouse of Amherst'Book summary:"I am a mouse, a white mouse. My name is Emmaline. Before I met Emily, the great poet of Amherst, I was nothing more than a crumb gatherer, a cheese nibbler, a mouse-of-little-purpose. There was an emptiness in my life that nothing seemed to fill."
That is, until Emmaline the mouse takes up residence in the wall of 19th-century poet Emily Dickinson's room in Amherst, Massachusetts. Emmaline spends her days happily observing the reclusive poet: "She seemed to be everywhere and nowhere at once, fluttering through the house like a ghost, stirring up a batch of gingerbread in the kitchen, or walking in the garden, lost in a reverie." The mouse's life changes when a gust of wind blows one of Emily's poems her way. She blushes as she reads Emily's evocative words that so aptly capture her own feelings, and from then on is determined to be a poet herself. The exchange of poems between the two species of poet is truly marvelous, as eight of Emily Dickinson's poems are answered by seven of author Elizabeth Spires's (an award-winning poet herself). "I'm Nobody! Who are you? / Are you--Nobody--too? / Then there's a pair of us! / Don't tell! they'd banish us--you know!" is followed by Emmaline's "It matters what we think, / What words we put in ink, / It matters what we feel / What feelings we conceal." A near miss with the family cat, an unpleasant interlude with a thick-headed editor, and even a threatening stoat keep the story moving, but the real excitement lies in the deepening friendship between Emily and Emmaline... and in Spires's inventive portrayal of the process of self-expression and the power of words. Along the way, illustrator Claire A. Nivola's sweetly skritchy sketches reflect the shy demeanor of both Emily and Emmaline. A brief portrait of Emily Dickinson concludes the book, but readers will come away with a glimpse of the poet and her work that no biography could ever communicate. (Ages 9 and older) --Karin Snelson [via]
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My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinsonby Alfred HabeggerISBN 0812966015 (0-8129-6601-5)
Softcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson'Book summary:In an excellent literary biography that matches the standard set by his earlier book, The Father: A Life of Henry James, Sr., Alfred Habegger brings a modern perspective to bear on the life and art of the great American poet Emily Dickinson (1830-86) while respecting and lucidly conveying her own distinctively 19th-century views. Like the groundbreaking 1970s feminist reassessments of Dickinson, this text avoids portraying her as a quaint, ladylike homebody (the stereotypical "Belle of Amherst"), and instead stresses her powerful personality and the strategies she employed to transcend the limits placed on her by Victorian society and a domineering father. Even though as an unmarried woman she was expected to stay close to home, Dickinson opted for a life of seclusion, thereby avoiding the social responsibilities foisted upon middle-class women of her day. Habegger does not minimize the fact that Dickinson was a very peculiar woman, particularly as he chronicles the middle years during which her unconventional attitudes hardened into the mannerisms of a local "character." But his primary focus is always on the genius that transformed her personal dilemmas into art. His sensitive, acute handling of her writings, with frequent quotations and careful analysis, fulfills one of the key functions of a literary biography: it makes you want to run out and reread Emily Dickinson's poetry right away. --Wendy Smith [via]
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Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinsonby Emily Dickinson, Ellen Louise Hart, Martha Nell SmithISBN 0963818368 (0-9638183-6-8)
Softcover, Paris Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson'Book summary:Emily Dickinson is a figure of intense contradictions: the hermit, the spinster, the frail woman in white who nonetheless wrote poems of almost painfully turbulent passion. For years, biographers have speculated about the male mentor who inspired Dickinson's work, naming intellectual figures like Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Samuel Bowles as possible candidates. As it turns out, however, they might have looked closer to home. For years, both before and after a painful break in their relationship, Dickinson wrote ardent letters to her friend (and eventual sister-in-law) Susan Huntington Dickinson. In fact, she wrote more letters to Susan than to anyone else, despite the fact that at one point Susan lived only a stone's throw away. Like Dickinson's poetry, these letters are a curious business: half epistles, half poems, idiosyncratically capitalized, punctuated, and spaced. They are not merely warm, in the 19th-century way; they are fierce, even erotic, in the kind of attachment they express. Yet editors Ellen Hart and Martha Smith aren't in the business of outing anyone; they prefer to simply present the correspondence in all its passionate oddity. Susan Dickinson was clearly a friend as well as one of the most valued readers of her sister-in-law's poetry--but was she its inspiration, as well? Hart and Smith let the reader decide. [via]
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The Passion of Emily Dickinsonby Judith FarrISBN 0674656660 (0-674-65666-0)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Passion of Emily Dickinson'Book summary:"How tame and manageable are the emotions of our bards, how placid and literary their allusions!" complained essayist T. W. Higginson in the Atlantic Monthly in 1870. "The American poet of passion is yet to come." He was, of course, unaware of the great erotic love poems such as "Wild Nights--Wild Nights!" and "Struck was I, nor yet by Lightning" being privately written by his reclusive friend Emily Dickinson.
In a profound new analysis of Dickinson's life and work, Judith Farr explores the desire, suffering, exultation, spiritual rapture, and intense dedication to art that characterize Dickinson's poems, and deciphers their many complex and witty references to texts and paintings of the day. In The Passion of Emily Dickinson the poet emerges, not as a cryptic proto-modern or a victim of female repression, but as a cultivated mid-Victorian in whom the romanticism of Emerson and the American landscape painters found bold expression.
Dickinson wrote two distinct cycles of love poetry, argues Farr, one for her sister-in-law Sue and one for the mysterious "Master," here convincingly identified as Samuel Bowles, a friend of the family. For each of these intimates, Dickinson crafted personalized metaphoric codes drawn from her reading. Calling books her "Kinsmen of the Shelf," she refracted elements of Jane Eyre, Antony and Cleopatra, Tennyson's Maud, De Quincey's Confessions, and key biblical passages into her writing. And, to a previously unexplored degree, Dickinson also quoted the strategies and subject matter of popular Hudson River, Luminist, and Pre-Raphaelite paintings, notably Thomas Cole's Voyage of Life and Frederic Edwin Church's Heart of the Andes. Involved in the delicate process of both expressing and disguising her passion, Dickinson incorporated these sources in an original and sophisticated manner.
Farr's superb readings of the poems and letters call on neglected archival material and on magazines, books, and paintings owned by the Dickinsons. Viewed as part of a finely articulated tradition of Victorian iconography, Dickinson's interest in the fate of the soul after death, her seclusion, her fascination with landscape's mystical content, her quest for honor and immortality through art, and most of all her very human passions become less enigmatic. Farr tells the story of a poet and her time. [via]
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Poemas/ Poemsby Emily DickinsonISBN 8437606373 (84-376-0637-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Poemas/ Poems'Book summary:La biografia oficial de Emily Dickinson no tiene mucho que ver con el mundo que puebla su poesia. El encierro voluntario en su habitacion, rompiendo su relacion con el mundo exterior, es lo que convierte su poesia en algo intimo e intenso. Un gusto obsesivo por la palabra, experimentar hasta encontrar el termino adecuado, y un peculiar sentido de la ironia impregnan sus versos.En Espana ha sido practicamente una desconocida, tanto para el gran publico como para academicos y creadores. Por ello, esta antologia bilingüe, abarcando aspectos tanto de contenido como estilisticos, pretende dar al lector una vision lo mas completa posible de su poesia. [via]
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Poemsby Emily Dickinson, Brenda HillmanISBN 1570620997 (1-57062-099-7)
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Poems: Including Varient Readings Critically Compared with All Known Manuscriptsby Emily Dickinson, Thomas H. JohnsonISBN 0674676009 (0-674-67600-9)
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The Poems of Emily Dickinsonby Emily DickinsonISBN 0674676017 (0-674-67601-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Poems of Emily Dickinson'Book summary:Emily Dickinson, poet of the interior life, imagined words/swords, hurling barbed syllables/piercing. Nothing about her adult appearance or habitation revealed such a militant soul. Only poems, written quietly in a room of her own, often hand-stitched in small volumes, then hidden in a drawer, revealed her true self. She did not live in time but in universals--an acute, sensitive nature reaching out boldly from self-referral to a wider, imagined world.
Dickinson died without fame; only a few poems were published in her lifetime. Her legacy was later rescued from her desk--an astonishing body of work, much of which has since appeared in piecemeal editions, sometimes with words altered by editors or publishers according to the fashion of the day.
Now Ralph Franklin, the foremost scholar of Dickinson's manuscripts, has prepared an authoritative one-volume edition of all extant poems by Emily Dickinson--1,789 poems in all, the largest number ever assembled. This reading edition derives from his three-volume work, The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum Edition (1998), which contains approximately 2,500 sources for the poems. In this one-volume edition, Franklin offers a single reading of each poem--usually the latest version of the entire poem--rendered with Dickinson's spelling, punctuation, and capitalization intact. The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition is a milestone in American literary scholarship and an indispensable addition to the personal library of poetry lovers everywhere.
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The Poems Of Emily Dickinson: Reading Editionby Emily Dickinson, R.W. FranklinISBN 0674018249 (0-674-01824-9)
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The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum Editionby Emily Dickinson, R.W. FranklinISBN 067467622X (0-674-67622-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum Edition'Book summary:Emily Dickinson, poet of the interior life, imagined words/swords, hurling barbed syllables/piercing. Nothing about her adult appearance or habitation revealed such a militant soul. Only poems, written quietly in a room of her own, often hand-stitched in small volumes, then hidden in a desk drawer, revealed her true self. She did not live in time, as did that other great poet of the day, Walt Whitman, but in universals. As she knowingly put it: "There is one thing to be grateful for--that one is one's self and not somebody else."
Dickinson lived and died without fame: she saw only a few poems published. Her great legacy was later rescued from her desk drawer--an astonishing body of work revealing her acute, sensitive nature reaching out boldly from self-referral to a wider, imagined world. Her family sought publication of Dickinson's poetry over the years, selecting verses, often altering her words or her punctuation, until, in 1955, the first important attempt was made to collect and publish Dickinson's work, edited by Thomas H. Johnson for the Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Now, after many years of preparation by Ralph Franklin, the foremost scholar of Dickinson's manuscripts, a new comprehensive edition is available. This three-volume work contains 1,789 poems, the largest number ever assembled. The poems, arranged chronologically, based on new dating, are drawn from a range of archives, most frequently from holographs, but also from various secondary sources representing lost manuscripts. The text of each manuscript is rendered individually, including, within the capacity of standard type, Dickinson's spelling, capitalization, and punctuation. Franklin gives Dickinson's alternative readings for the poems, her revisions, and the line and page, or column, divisions in the source. Each entry identifies Franklin's editorial emendations and records the publication history, including variants. Fourteen appendices of tables and lists give additional information, including poems attributed to Emily Dickinson. The poems are indexed by numbers from the Johnson edition, as well as by first lines.
Franklin has provided an introduction that serves as a guide to this edition and surveys the history of the editing of Dickinson's poems. His account of how Dickinson conducted her workshop is a reconstruction of a remarkable poetic life.
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The Poet and the Murderer: A True Story of Literary Crime and the Art of Forgeryby Simon WorrallISBN 0452284023 (0-452-28402-3)
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He was a young Mormon boy who loathed what he believed to be the hypocrisy of his faith, and who devised secret ways to infiltrate and undermine the church. Mark Hofmann began his career by forging and selling rare Mormon coins, and quickly moved on to creating false, highly controversial religious documents that threw the Church of Latter-Day Saints into turmoil. But it was his infamous Emily Dickinson poem that would prove his greatest deception, stunning the art and literary worlds and earning him thousands from the most distinguished Dickinson scholars. It would also prove his ultimate undoing, when his desperation to keep his greatest forgery a secret drove him to commit ever more heinous crimes-including acts of shocking violence.
Filled with the page-turning suspense and tantalizing sleuthing techniques of a literary thriller, The Poet and the Murderer gives us an unforgettable portrait of a deeply irreligious man and a brilliant con artist whose greatest talent-and greatest tragedy--was his ability to conceal his mad genius behind the unique gifts and enduring celebrity of others. [via]
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The Poetics of Enclosure: American Women Poets from Dickinson to Doveby Lesley WheelerISBN 1572331976 (1-57233-197-6)
Hardcover, Univ of Tennessee Pr
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Readings on Emily Dickinsonby Tamara JohnsonISBN 1565106350 (1-56510-635-0)
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The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes:Early Detective Storiesby Hugh GreeneISBN 0394714873 (0-394-71487-3)
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Selected Poemsby Emily DickinsonISBN 0486264661 (0-486-26466-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Poems'Book summary:Over 100 best-known, best-loved poems by one of America's foremost poets, reprinted from authoritative early editions. "The Snake," "Hope," "The Chariot," many more, display unflinching honesty, psychological penetration, and technical adventurousness that have delighted and impressed generations of poetry lovers. Includes 3 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.[via]More editions of Selected Poems:
The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinsonby Modern Library Staff, Emily DickinsonISBN 0679602011 (0-679-60201-1)
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The Single Hound : Poems of a Lifetimeby Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson BianchiISBN 1843911213 (1-84391-121-3)
Hardcover, Hesperus Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Single Hound : Poems of a Lifetime'Book summary:Reprinted for the first time in almost a century, The Single Hound is the first volume of Emily Dickinsons collected poems. Deceptive in its simplicity, Emily Dickinsons verse is a monumental testament to her poetic genius. Encompassing the entire gamut of emotion and feeling, her poems are remarkable for their honesty, often in the face of severe trials and tribulations. Extraordinary, too, is her experimental use of structure and grammar, a device that has led her to be hailed as one of the most creative and individual poets of the 19th century. Emily Dickinson is one of Americas leading experimental poets; her work has been the inspiration for a host of feminist writers.[via]More editions of The Single Hound : Poems of a Lifetime:
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Sister Emily's Lightship and Other Storiesby Jane YolenISBN 0312875231 (0-312-87523-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sister Emily's Lightship and Other Stories'Book summary:As author, poet, and editor, Jane Yolen has published more than 150 books and has won two Nebula Awards, the Caldecott Medal, the World Fantasy Award, the Rhysling Award, the Daedalus Award, the Kerlan Award, and the Academy of American Poets Prize. She has written one of the 20th century's greatest high-fantasy series, the Chronicles of Great Alta (Sister Light, Sister Dark, White Jenna, and The One-Armed Queen). Her first collection of short fiction for adults is Sister Emily's Lightship and Other Stories. It assembles 28 stories, three of which are original to this volume, many of which take the form of folk or fairy tales, and all of which are excellent. Sometimes dark, sometimes humorous, the stories are always beautifully written, sharp, and wise.
"Snow in Summer" portrays a modern, Appalachian Snow White with a fringe-Fundamentalist snake-handling stepmother. "Granny Rumple" reveals the grim origin of Rumplestiltskin. A prequel to the Chronicles of Great Alta, "Blood Sister" explores both love and the nature of narrative. In "The Gift of the Magicians, with Apologies to You Know Who," Beauty and the Beast meet with a horrifically suitable O. Henry twist. The Nebula Award winning "Lost Girls" revisits Peter Pan's Neverland with a feminist slant. "Dick W. and His Pussy; or, Tess and Her Adequate Dick" is an amusingly naughty retold fairy tale. In the Nebula Award winner "Sister Emily's Lightship," the poet Emily Dickinson finds a strange and otherworldly inspiration. --Cynthia Ward [via]
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Six American Poetsby Joel ConarroeISBN 0679745254 (0-679-74525-4)
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Six American Poets: An Anthologyby Joel ConarroeISBN 0679406891 (0-679-40689-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Six American Poets: An Anthology'Book summary:Here are the most enduring works of six great American poets, collected in a single authoritative volume. From the overflowing pantheism of Walt Whitman to the exquisite precision of Emily Dickinson; from the democratic clarity of William Carlos Williams to the cerebral luxuriance of Wallace Stevens; and from Robert Frost's deceptively homespun dramatic monologues to Langston Hughes's exuberant jazz-age lyrics, this anthology presents the best work of six makers of the modern American poetic tradition. Six American Poets includes 247 poems, among them such famous masterpieces as "I Hear America Singing," "The Idea of Order at Key West," "The Dance," and "Mending Wall," as well as lesser-known works. With perceptive introductory essays by the distinguished scholar Joel Conarroe and selections that capture the distinctive voices and visions of its authors, this volume is an invaluable addition to any poetry library.
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Splintered Worlds: Fragmentation and the Ideal of Diversity in the Work of Emerson, Melville, Whitman, and Dickinsonby Robert M. GreenbergISBN 1555531679 (1-55553-167-9)
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A Vice for Voices: Reading Emily Dickinson's Correspondenceby Marietta MessmerISBN 1558493069 (1-55849-306-9)
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The Works of Emily Dickinsonby Emily DickinsonISBN 1853264199 (1-85326-419-9)
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