Slow Fuse of the Possible

<i><b>An engrossing and beautifully crafted memoir of imagination obsession and disaster from the couch of old-fashioned four-times-a-week psychoanalysis.</b></i> <p/><i>Slow Fuse of the Possible</i> is a poet's narrative of a troubled psychoanalysis. It is also a commanding meditation on the powers of language for good and for ill. <p/> From the beginning of their time together it is clear that the enigmatic analyst and Daniels are not a good match yet both are determined to continue their work--the former in nearly complete silence and the latter as best she can with the tools at her disposal: careful attention to language deep reading and literary imagination. Throughout the story is filtered through the mind of Emily Dickinson whose poetry Daniels uses as a fulcrum for the interpretation of her own experience. The book is saturated with Dickinson's verse and Dickinson is an increasingly haunting presence as crises emerge and the author unravels. <p/> This compelling lyric memoir so richly steeped in all facets of language and the literary allows readers a glimpse into the mind of a renowned poet revealing the dazzling and anguished connections between poetry and psychoanalysis.