Susan Howe, „My Emily Dickinson“ (2007, New Directions — Kindle Edition)
Of many books on Emily Dickinson, one of the world‘s truly great poets, Ms. Howe‘s work best transmits Ms. Dickinson‘s inner spirit.
Ms. Howe — a major poet — meets her intellect and heart with our own Emily Dickinson through deep, deep immersion in “My Life had stood— a Loaded Gun —“ (# 764 in “The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition“ [Editor: R. W. Franklin, 1999, ISBN: 0-674-1824-9, Harvard University Press (Belknap Press)].
Poem #764 anchors Ms. Howe’s transmission of insights into Ms. Dickinson’s high spirituality through the poem’s immersion in King Lear, Childe Harold (Robert Browning), neo-Platonism, the Bronte sisters, James Fenimore Cooper, radical abolitionism, the Indian captivity of the Puritan — Mary Rowlandson, Paradise Lost, Charles Dickens, and the theology-philosophy of Jonathan Edwards (who unexpectedly influenced heavily Ms. Dickinson’s view of predestination— albeit with a neo-Platonic twist, that it would be only the one who intellectually developed her spiritual potential who would attain to the mystery).
And mystery, full of life and spirituality in Death itself, shall remain unknown, perhaps even in one’s ultimate attainment.
Ms. Howe’s concentration on Poem #764 is ideal for a truly deep spiritual union with Ms. Dickinson through the Great Poet’s own condensation of sources from her own spiritual and poetic forebears.
Ms. Howe shows convincingly how much our Great Poet packed in Poem #764.
From my reading of Our Poet’s work, I am convinced that one could build a commentary like that of Ms. Howe based upon any single poem among scores within Ms. Dickinson’s work.
Ms. Howe, in concentrating on Poem #764, shows us the road to immersion in any of Ms. Dickinson’s great work.
It would be like learning how to view the work of Picasso through a very able guide through “Guernica.”
Ms. Howe’s work has my high recommendation.
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