{"product_id":"my-emily-dickinson-1","title":"My Emily Dickinson","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eMy Emily Dickinson\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eSusan Howe\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780811216838\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eNew Directions\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2007\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReissue\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e160\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eModerate edge wear. Binding good. May have marking in text. We sometimes source from libraries. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\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 \u003cem\u003eMy Emily Dickinson\u003c\/em\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....\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"New Directions","offers":[{"title":"My Emily Dickinson | Susan Howe | Paperback | 9780811216838 | Used: Good | 1771668","offer_id":49551059386520,"sku":"1771668","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/61Sbn-mV3IL_c0b4d593-fc47-455b-b236-dfc265374208.jpg?v=1784913069","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/my-emily-dickinson-1","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}