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Emily Dickinson's uncensored and breathtaking letters, poems, and letter-poems to her sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Dickinson

For the first time, selections from Emily Dickinson's thirty-six year correspondence with her childhood friend, neighbor, and sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Dickinson, are compiled in a single volume. Open Me Carefully invites a dramatic new understanding of Emily Dickinson's life and work, overcoming a century of censorship and misinterpretation. For the millions of readers who love Emily Dickinson's poetry, Open Me Carefully brings new light to the meaning of the poet's life and work. Gone is Emily as lonely spinster; here is Dickinson in her own words, passionate and fully alive. With spare commentary, Smith ... and Hart ... let these letters speak for themselves. Most important, unlike previous editors who altered line breaks to fit their sense of what is poetry or prose, Hart and Smith offer faithful reproductions of the letters' genre-defying form as the words unravel spectacularly down the original page. Renee Tursi, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIE

Book Details

Publisher:
Paris Press
ISBN:
9780963818362
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
362
Authors:
Emily Dickinson
Published Date:
1998-10-01
Language:
English

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About Emily Dickinson

One of the most significant American poets, Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, and spent almost her entire life there in seclusion. She attended Amherst Academy and briefly studied at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. Fewer than a dozen of her poems appeared during her lifetime, but nearly 1,800 were found after her death. Her work uses slant rhyme, dashes, and compressed syntax. Edited versions of her poems appeared beginning in 1890, but they were not printed as she wrote them until Thomas H. Johnson's edition of 1955.

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