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Book Synopsis"Starts off as a manifesto but becomes richer and more suggestive as it develops."-The New York Sun
Trade Review"One of our seminal works of creative scholarship." -- Michael Palmer
"In the non-conformist tradition of William Carlos Williams's
In the American Grain and Charles Olson's
Call Me Ishmael, Susan Howe's
My Emily Dickinson reclaims the primacy of the poet's voice in American literary criticism even as it redresses the troubling absence of women within those antecedents. In this groundbreaking and influential work, Howe explores Dickinson's poems in all their radical indeterminacy and acoustical complexity, brilliantly revealing their explosive, modern power.
My Emily Dickinson is visionary criticism at its best." -- Elizabeth Willis
"As a poet and a critic she articulates precisely those soundings of uncertainty, those zones of failed or impaired utterance that constitute the literary history of America's uneasy commerce with the world." -- Richard Sieburth - Times Literary Supplement
