{"product_id":"my-emily-dickinson","title":"My Emily Dickinson","description":"For 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 My Emily Dickinson (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\u003eASIN: 0811216837\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.0811216837.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Weinberger, Eliot|Howe, Susan\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact  including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43478206513213,"sku":"BVV.0811216837.G","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/0811216837-0.jpg?v=1786917982","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/my-emily-dickinson","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}