Emily Dickinson Woman of Letters

<p>Buried in Emily Dickinson's letters are many lines that are stunningly beautiful as beautiful as any to be found in her poems. Lewis Turco has taken some of these lines and written poems from them on them and around them. This volume then is a collaboration between two writers one a 19th-century woman whose work became known to most readers only in the 20th century and the other a post-modernist man of letters-an award-winning poet critic and scholar.</p><p>In addition to the poems collected here Turco has written an informative introduction and included several essays by feminist critics and other scholars who discuss various aspects of Emily Dickinson's letters.</p><p>Emily Dickinson Woman of Letters is therefore at once an addition to the Dickinson canon a distinguished collection of contemporary poems an important volume of critical scholarship in American literature and a fascinating reading experience that will appeal to a wide audience of professionals and non-professionals alike.</p>