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A GREAT GIFT FOR TEACHERS, ENGLISH MAJORS, POETRY LOVERS, LOVERS OF PARODY & HUMORIf you're shopping for someone who (a) loves poetry and (b) has a sense of humor, then you can't go wrong with Great American Poems ~ REPOEMED as a gift!
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Should you buy Great American Poems ~ REPOEMED for someone as a gift?
1. Are they a fan of the poetry of Emily Dickinson, E. E. Cummings, and Robert Frost? 2. Do they have a sense of humor? 3. Are they witty? Intelligent? 4. Are they good looking? If you answered "yes" to one or more of the questions above, then it's not a matter of "if" you should purchase copies of Great American Poems ~ REPOEMED gifts, it is "how many." FOR INFORMATION ON THE AUTHOR, JIM ASHER, CLICK HERE. |
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If you are a fan of the poetry of Emily Dickinson, then I recommend The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson, a work by Jerome Charyn that mingles fact and fiction about Dickinson's life from his research of the her letters and poetry. Charyn's work gives a vivid and audacious characterization of the poet who brought us "Nature, the gentlest mother" as well as "Wild nights! Wild nights! Were I with thee!"
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If your image of Emily Dickinson is that of a reclusive, unassuming woman in white hiding her poems in chest drawers and boxes under her bed in a charming home in the quaint town in Massachusettes, then pick up a copy of Lyndall Gordon's Lives Like Loaded Guns. After you read Gordon's account, you'll be more apt to think that Dickinson's life and posthomous family events were more like a 19th century reality show dubbed "The Real Housewives of Amherst."
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The Emily Dickinson Reader by Paul LegaultShort on time? Can't seem to find the time to read all of Emily Dickinson's poems? Then you have two choices:
1) You can read the 1,775 poems in Thomas H. Johnson's The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson instead of the 1,789 poems in R. W. Franklin's The Poems of Emily Dickinson. ~ OR ~ 2) You can read Paul Legault's The Emily Dickinson Reader, where each of her poems is reduced to a pithy quip or two. |
Interested in the life of Emily Dickinson? Then read about the poet in her own words in thiis pocket-size volume of some of Dickinson's letters – the only prose she ever wrote.
Spoiler alert: On page 13 you'll learn why Dickinson is known as "the belle of Amherst"! |
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During a recent visit to Chicago, I spent some time in the poetry library at the Poetry Foundation. While there, I purused a book of Dickinson poetry, and I came across a poem of hers with which I was not familar, so I jotted down the number and first line: 1244, "Fly – fly –but as you fly." However, when I got home, I looked up poem 1244 in The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson edited by Thomas H. Johnson, and the first line read, "The Butterfly's Assumption Gown" – and "Fly – fly – but as you fly" was nowhere to be found in my book's index.
Long story short: Johnson's volume was the definitive text of Dickinson poetry as of its publication in the 1950s; however, R. W. Franklin re-examined all of Johnson's research and all of the existing works of Dickinson, and he published The Poems of Emily Dickinson in 1998. As a result, Franklin's work is the more complete volume of the two "complete" volumes of Dickinson's work. |