Showing posts with label Emily Dickinson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Emily Dickinson. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Playwright-turned-novelist Kirk Lynn on Joe Brainard, James Thurber, and other influences on Rules for Werewolves

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Rules for Werewolves by Kirk Lynn (Melville House, 2015) Our series of guest posts by contemporary writers discussing their influences ...
Monday, May 2, 2011

Christopher Benfey on Lincoln’s Gettysburg sonnet

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Guest blog post by Christopher Benfey, author of American Audacity: Literary Essays North and South and editor of Stephen Crane: Complete P...
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Thursday, March 24, 2011

Helen Vendler at 13: “I learned Dickinson’s poems in the bad old versions”

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Jenny Attiyeh , whom New Yorkers might remember from her days as a reporter for cable news station NY1 and from her weekly programs on WNYC-...
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Monday, March 21, 2011

Celebrate the first day of spring with a favorite poem

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“A little madness in the Spring,” Emily Dickinson once wrote, “Is wholesome even for the King.” Decades later, in “Mending Wall,” Robert Fr...
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Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Thomas Wentworth Higginson visits Emily Dickinson, “my partially cracked poetess at Amherst,” for the first time

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Brenda Wineapple wonders in White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson if Higginson’s extra-literary back...
Friday, December 10, 2010

Focusing the Lens of the Age on Emily Dickinson

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“Dickinson the writer: how do we characterize her?” asks Helen Vendler in the introduction to her absorbing new book. Dickinson: Selected Po...
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Emily Dickinson’s Recipe for Black Cake (Fruitcake)

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This week has been Emily Dickinson week at The Library of America. Not only is today Emily Dickinson’s birthday, but the New York staff invi...
Sunday, July 4, 2010

Emily Dickinson: “Thanks for the Ethiopian Face”

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In “ Ardor and the Abyss ” poet James Longenbach finds quite a different Emily Dickinson— “ an extraordinarily powerful woman, an artist wh...