Weekend book reviews Aug 23, 2008
White Heat The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson ... "Dare you see a Soul at the 'White Heat'?" was the unnerving question put by Emily Dickinson in one of the poems she sent to a new correspondent, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, in the summer of 1862, writes the reviewer Miranda Seymour ... The answer, Wineapple leads us to conclude, was that Emily Dickinson sought not a master but a disciple: one whom she could bewitch, baffle ("The Riddle that we guess / We speedily... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Independent Reader: Buddy books Aug 23, 2008
Brenda Wineapple has added enormously to the literature about Emily Dickinson, while bringing to light a friendship with another fascinating personage in White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson (Knopf, $27 ... There have been many biographies and studies of Emily Dickinson, but this one sheds a new light on her life and on her poetry, much of which is included in this book ... Why did the reclusive Emily Dickinson choose this man to be her confidante, to be... (Hillsdale Independent, NY)
Timely Ledes From This Summer's New Yorkers Aug 22, 2008
In April of 1862, Emily Dickinson wrote to a stranger, initiating a fervent twenty-four-year correspondence, in the course of which they managed to meet only twice. "," by Judith Thurman, August 4, 2008. (Slate)
Light on a poet's imagination, and an era Aug 10, 2008
Now, in "White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson" (Knopf, $27. 95), Wineapple similarly reanimates the poet and her "Perceptor" in a dual biography of astonishing depth and grace. (Boston Globe)
Remembered in poetry Aug 10, 2008
Poetry from the new book was read, along with works by poets like Emily Dickinson. Local singer Ron Eckert also performed a few songs. (Odessa American, TX)
First lady of scandal Aug 2, 2008
The 80 per cent sales plummet between first and second albums can be partly explained by the fact that No Promises comprised a selection of poems set to music and that the poems were by English-language poets such as W.B. Yeats, W.H. Auden, Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson and Walter de la Mare, about as sizeable a transgression as one could make in such a fiercely francophone culture. Not that Bruni is French by birth, anyway. (Sydney Morning Herald)
Shauna Karen Carson McCurdyNov. 24, 1953 - July 23, 2008 Jul 31, 2008
NEWSPAPERS IN EDUCATION. She also wrote and read a great deal and dreamed of becoming a writer. (Ontario Argus Observer, OR)
Get To Know Your Poet Laureate Jul 30, 2008
She moves away from her themes as rapidly as she engages them, which may be why some critics have compared her to Emily Dickinson, even though her dramatic imagination is far more detachedless blasphemous and exaltedthan her predecessor's. Born in California in 1945, Ryan, who succeeds Charles Simic, has been described as an "outsider," largely because she has managed not to be drawn into that digests most "creative writers" in America today; she has taught remedial English in California's... (Slate)
Tests not so great after all Jul 27, 2008
Harvard professors expect their students to produce sensitive, original responses to Emily Dickinson and William Shakespeare and William Faulkner. But the Mississippi English II test does not ask our children to make predictions or to analyze poetry or drama or fiction or to write thoughtful essays about literature. (Greenville Delta Democrat Times, MS)
Right-Wing Rewards Jul 26, 2008
American Scholar, Summer 2008An by a recently retired Yale professor warns that an elite education "teaches you to think that measure of intelligence and academic achievement are measures of value in some moral or metaphysical sense." The gilded universities also encourage "entitled mediocrity"the notion that "for the elite, there's always another extension, a bailout, a pardon, a stint in rehabalways plenty of contacts and special stipends. " But the "most damning disadvantage" of Ivy... (Slate)
Ambling along Route 20: Author Mac Nelson's 20 West: The Great Road across America follows the highway from coast to coast Jul 22, 2008
He pauses for a nice appreciation of Emily Dickinson, hoping to rescue her as much from the postmodern re-evaluation that casts her as a "Marquise de Sade" as from the sweet, twittery spinster of yore. Things perk up in Chapter Two, as we cross a New York dotted with the remains of strange millennial/spiritualist/socialist cults--a region so subject to waves of religious enthusiasm that it came to be called "the burned-over district." Here we find Mother Ann Lee's Shakers (note to author:... (Hillsdale Independent, NY)
POET LAUREATE OF THE UNITED STATES: Kay RyanPoems that turn ordinary things grand Jul 19, 2008
"The poet she most reminds me of is Emily Dickinson. Both write very short, witty, dense and wise poems.". One of Ryan's poems - "How Birds Sing" - is permanently installed at the Central Park Zoo in New York City. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Bruni's husky purr hard to resist Jul 13, 2008
No Promises (2007), an English-language album based on poems by W.B. Yeats, Emily Dickinson and others, won high marks for ambition, though did not sell well till Sarkozy came along. With Comme si de rien n. (Globe and Mail)
The Gift Outright Jul 4, 2008
Not just the splendiferous versifiers and star-spangled drumbeaters, but the piquant solitude of an Emily Dickinson. As for those times that try men's souls, when the sunshine patriots have fled, when endurance is all and perseverance the only duty, when gray winter sets in with no break in the clouds, as it did at Valley Forge and Bastogne, there is a poet for those somber seasons, too. (Townhall.com)
Osterville Library pays tribute to a friend Jul 3, 2008
The wood-carved design of the bookplate was created by Sandy Connors and features an Emily Dickinson quote, hydrangea and other native Cape Cod plants and flowers, a seashell and the monogram of Joyce Phillips. The fact that her name will now be attached to some of these books is just amazing, said Tom Phillips at Monday s ceremony. (Yarmouth Register, MA)
Of Emily Dickinson and Steve McQueen on the Smith River Jun 27, 2008
The line from Emily Dickinson drifted through my consciousness again last week on the starlit evening of the summer solstice ... But maybe we should add a collection of Emily Dickinson poems, just in case. (Missoulian, MT)
Twisted yarns Jun 21, 2008
Their alien mystery was caught by Emily Dickinson in a perfect poem - though, like most 19th-century people, she assumed spiders were male. A Spider sewed at Night. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
David Ian Miller Jun 17, 2008
You know, you read Emily Dickinson or you get into an Emily Dickinson world where she sees heaven in a dewdrop on a plant in the early morning in her garden. You feel you are there, you know. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Doty indulges passion for poetry, memoir Jun 17, 2008
"It also gave me the opportunity to write about writers and poets like Emily Dickinson and their relationship with animals.". He's "in between dogs right now," Doty said, but planning to get a new one shortly. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
NY’s First Lady urges Hawthorne Valley grads to follow their dreams Jun 15, 2008
Wietske Smeele based her speech on the Emily Dickinson poem, I ll tell you how the sun rose. She said her family moved here from England when she was in the fifth-grade primarily because of Hawthorne Valley. (Hudson Register Star, NY)
Netted in love Jun 14, 2008
Love at first click Smriti and Aditya would utter (read type) the same words together at the same time, spend hours locked up in a room where there would be no one except them, swear by the same chocolate truffle and Emily Dickinson poetry. It was a love so perfect. (India Times, India)
Canto Hosting Celebration Of Senses’ Jun 12, 2008
Musical highlights are to include Will There Really Be A Morning with music by Craig Hella Johnson and poetry by Emily Dickinson and Get Me Through December which can heard on Alison Kraus most recent CD.. Mundi s music and energy are infectious, said Ault. (Fredericksburg Standard Radio Post, TX)
Emissaries to a battered world Jun 10, 2008
And in English hoopoe is a word that sounds, as Emily Dickinson noted about all feathered creatures, strangely like hope. The news was announced at the official residence of the president of Israel, Shimon Peres, who in the late 1940s changed his name from Persky to Peres because he saw a giant lammergeier, or bearded vulture (in Hebrew, a "peres"), circling overhead. (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
What I'm reading: Mal Peet Jun 1, 2008
When I'm working, I always read stuff that's as far away from what I'm working on as possible, so I'll read American crime fiction at bedtime, or Emily Dickinson. I feel able to steal from Emily Dickson because she's both wonderful and dead. (Guardian Unlimited)
Nourishing the body can feed the soul May 31, 2008
(Emily Dickinson made the same point in a poem, though not about food, that Das likes to cite: "Some keep the Sabbath going to Church -/I keep it, staying at Home -/With a bobolink for a Chorister -/And an Orchard, for a Dome."). The story of the cook is Das's contribution in a forthcoming anthology, "Bread, Body, Spirit," which draws on numerous traditions and their takes on eating. (Boston Globe)
Top authors pick best summer books May 30, 2008
" Danielle Steel "Danielle Steel :)" Books to dip into and out of Augusten Burroughs The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson "We know Emily Dickinson lived in olden days and she was a poet and seldom left her home. But read one of her poems -- any one will do -- and you'll see the evidence of a glittering genius. (CNN -- Showbiz)
O'Neil: When war was just a card game May 29, 2008
It was not a time-tested favorite by Emily Dickinson or Robert Frost, nor was it a deeply dark or angry piece from contemporary poet, Byfield resident and friend, Ross Harwood. The poem that made a mark was written by middle school student Lauren McInness of the Waring School in Beverly. (Wakefield Observer, MA)
As a trilogy ends, explanations are left up to the reader May 21, 2008
The title of Gerard Woodward's "A Curious Earth" comes from an Emily Dickinson poem, but Woodward's protagonist, Aldous Jones, is a kind of Alice, navigating a series of poignant late-life adventures with poise, recklessness, and an appealing indifference to whether or not he appears ridiculous. The book is the final installment in Woodward's fictional trilogy about the messy, erudite, alcohol-soaked Jones family of North London. (Boston Globe)
Publish - then edit and be damned May 17, 2008
Ditto for Henry James and Emily Dickinson. As for D. H. Lawrence, he "did improve his early work by rewriting it for his Collected Poems, but perhaps this is because the poems were so bad to begin with". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Miller, school administrators get 4 percent raises May 16, 2008
Principals: Godfrey Saunders, Bozeman High, 105,678; Jerry Bauer, Whittier Elementary, 85,750; Jim Bruggeman, Irving Elementary, 90,581; Diane Cashell, Chief Joseph Middle School, 92,997; Emily Dickinson principal, to be hired, approximately 86,958; Gordon Grissom, Sacajawea Middle School, 93,601; Robbye Hamburgh, Hyalite Elementary, 89,374; Nonnie Hughes, Morning Star Elementary, 92,393; Robin Miller, Hawthorne Elementary, 86,354; Randy Walthall, Longfellow Elementary, 88,166 ... Assistant... (Bozeman Daily Chronicle)
Maria Gabriela Llansol May 15, 2008
ntzer from the 16th-century peasants' war in Germany, through Bach and Spinoza, to Emily Dickinson. She set out her philosophy and practice of writing in the O Livro das Comunidades (The Book of Communities, 1977). (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
A writer's block May 11, 2008
Also: "A little madness in the spring, is wholesome even for a king" from Emily Dickinson and my personal favorite, "No poems can please for long that are written by water drinkers," compliments of Horace. Spooner wisely sought spontaneity from the outset. (Boston Globe)
Special ed. PTA invited to help pick new director May 11, 2008
She thanked Miller for including special education parents in the search committee for a new principal at Emily Dickinson School, which has a special education classroom. Maggee Harrison, SEPTA president, also thanked Miller for his time. (Bozeman Daily Chronicle)
Book Review: Brian Hall's 'Fall of Frost' May 10, 2008
From the title (cribbed from Emily Dickinson) on down, "Fall of Frost" is a hive of allusions, with stray lines from Herrick, Wordsworth, Browning, Faulkner, the Song of Solomon and others buzzing through the text. "Most of my ideas occur in verse," Frost confided in a letter, something Hall gamely attempts to convey, showing Frost thumbing through his Rolodex of metaphors as he encounters the world: "He knocked; the wolf at the door. He invaded her room like a blast of cold air. He fell on her... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
A Whitman sampler May 5, 2008
In December, the group has an annual celebration of Emily Dickinson s birthday. For more information about the Montgomery County Literary Arts Council, visit www. (Conroe Courier, TX)
Independent Reader: Hummingbirds, heists and lost loves May 2, 2008
In one such moment Abraham Lincoln remarked to Harriet Beecher Stowe, "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started the great war." Stowe rescues a hummingbird, draws its picture, celebrates the bird in a children's story, while Emily Dickinson, reclusive and dressed in white, writes one of her most famous poems, the one that begins "I taste a liquor never brewed," as well as another verse, "A Route to Evanescence," describing the essence of a hummingbird. Henry Ward Beecher, who... (Hillsdale Independent, NY)
'Lost in translation' Poetic voices echo at JC libraries Apr 23, 2008
Among Quinn's favorites are the classics: e.e. cummings, Robert Frost, and Emily Dickinson. She's also fond of children's poets Jack Prelutsky and Shel Silverstein. (Hoboken Reporter, NJ)
Flights of fancy Apr 20, 2008
A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson HeadeBy Christopher BenfeyPenguin, 287 pp ... But closer to home, for writer Harriet Beecher Stowe and others, most notably poet Emily Dickinson, hummingbirds were "images of freedom in a world of captivity." In September 1862, when the Boston abolitionist Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson published "The Life of Birds" in The Atlantic, he began... (Boston Globe)
Travis Sullivan's idea: jazz meets Bjork Apr 18, 2008
"Copland wrote a song cycle based on Emily Dickinson poems, and Debussy did the poems of Mallarme and other French poets. That was sort of my approach.". Somewhat less influential, he says, was the deep jazz tradition of interpreting pop tunes: "Halfway into this, I didn't see a definite model for any artist doing something to the extent I was doing it," he says. (Boston Globe)
Why Don't Modern Poems Rhyme, Etc. Apr 18, 2008
Emily Dickinson, "I tie my HatI crease my Shawl" ... "I tie my HatI crease my Shawl" by Emily Dickinson reprinted electronically by permission of the publishers and the trustees of Amherst College from The Poems of Emily Dickinson, edited by Thomas H. Johnson, Cambridge, Mass. (Slate)
Personification Lesson Apr 17, 2008
Classic poems that use personification are as follows: Two Sunflowers Move in the Yellow Room by William Blake, The Train and A Thunder-storm by Emily Dickinson, November Song by Vernon Scannell, and The Cat and the Fiddle by Mother Goose. 3. (Suite101.com)
Time to rhyme Apr 14, 2008
Those who can't come up with their own selection can download a poem from the academy's website, choosing among works by Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and Shakespeare. Or there's Sara Teasdale's yearning "I am Not Yours," which begins. (Boston Globe)
Ladies (literature) nightPosted 4 hours, 57 minutes ago. Apr 11, 2008
An Evening with Jane Austen, Emily Bronte and Emily Dickinson ... Some of the 19th century s most famous female writers will appear April 15 at Wright State University s Lake Campus, when actress Patricia Hruby Powell presents An Evening with Jane Austen, Emily Bronte and Emily Dickinson. (Lima News, OH)
March (pizza) Madness Apr 7, 2008
Gripping the wheel is Tina Lance, a brown-haired, 20-something with a winning smile and a mission that, in the course of the afternoon, will cause her to quote Jean-Paul Sartre, Emily Dickinson, and the immortal baseball poem "Casey at the Bat.". She turns around at the next intersection and stops in front of an apartment building. (Christian Science Monitor -- USA)
POETRY WORTH 1,000 PICTURES Apr 6, 2008
" The limerick is one of my favorite forms of poetry. So I was surprised when the Academy of American Poets asked me to come read at their "Poetry & The Creative Mind" fund-raiser in Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center last week. I was onstage with a gang of worthies before a packed SRO house. While prize-winning playwright John Guare read from "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" (a work given him by his impressive wife, Adele) and LBJ biographer Robert Caro offered Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson,... (New York Post -- Gossip)
Erdrich’s poetry based on surroundings Apr 5, 2008
Vach Lindsey, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost are the first ones she remembers becoming her favorites. "He made us study and learn poems as a kid," she said. (Wahpeton Daily News, ND)
Independent Reader: Northern poetry, Southern tragedy Apr 5, 2008
Its very title taken from a poem (by Emily Dickinson; look it up). Hall, who lives in Ithaca, will be reading at The Bookery in that town Saturday, April 12, and somewhat closer by at Odyssey Books in South Hadley, Mass. (Hillsdale Independent, NY)
State briefs (26) Apr 4, 2008
Schools opened in 1992 were named for poet Emily Dickinson and Morning Star, a Northern Cheyenne chief. The school is scheduled to open in August 2009. (Helena Independent Record, MT)
Malware blamed for supermarket data breach Mar 31, 2008
The finding was revealed in a letter from Hannaford general counsel Emily Dickinson to Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley and Gov. Deval Patrick's Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation. Eleazer declined to release a copy. (Globe and Mail -- Technology)
FLOCKING TOGETHER Mar 30, 2008
Robert Frost, Henry David Thoreau ("The patron saint of backyard birding"), Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin and Theodore Roosevelt (the last man to see a passenger pigeon in the wild) are all discussed at length. Like a hawk breezily gliding over an open valley, Rosen hovers briefly over a sweeping array of other topics that you may not think have much to do with birds - the founding of Israel, Medieval Sufism, 9/11, King Solomon and Chaucer, to name just a few. (New York Post -- Opinions)
A light in the dark Mar 30, 2008
The poetry of Emily Dickinson is popular, as are macabre comedy films like Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas and the cerebral fantasy flick Donnie Darko. In Scotland, the Bedlam goth night at Glasgow University's Queen Margaret Union attracts hundreds of people every month, while even St Andrews University, a bastion of academic conservatism, boasts a thriving goth society. (Scotsman)
The Curious Gardener's Almanac Mar 29, 2008
"To see the Summer Sky/ Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie/ True poems flee." ~Emily Dickinson. "Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower." ~Albert Camus. (Suite101.com)
How Britain fell for the French First Lady Mar 28, 2008
I met Bruni last year, during an extensive press tour for No Promises, her languid collection of musical arrangements of poems by Emily Dickinson, Dorothy Parker, WH Auden and WB Yeats. She dropped little lines of poetry into our conversation about blouses and smoked very thin cigarettes. (Guardian Unlimited -- Politics)
People Profile --Maurer juggling jobs, college classes, future plans Mar 25, 2008
She said she s not the Emily Dickinson type and at some point would love to be published. At Blinn, she s president of the Canterbury Club, an organization of St. Peter s Episcopal Church. (Brenham Banner, TX)
REQUIRED READING Mar 23, 2008
by Pico Iyer (Knopf) Given current events in Tibet, the release of this personal look at the Dalai Lama could not be more timely (New York Post -- Opinions)
Poetry Everywhere Mar 21, 2008
Emily Dickinson - "I started early ..." (WGBH/David Grubin Productions) 5. Robert Frost - "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" (WGBH/David Grubin Productions) 6. (PR Newswire)
Alliteration Lesson Plan Mar 17, 2008
Emily Dickinson, "A Word is Dead" -- Alliteration of S. Jack Prelutsky, "The Dance of the Thirteen Skeletons" -- Alliteration of C. (Suite101.com)
Dan Chiasson on 'The Best American Erotic Poems' Mar 15, 2008
" Contemporary poets have written excellent erotic poems, and some of them are included here: "I See a Man," by Carl Phillips; "The Couple," by Mark Strand; "The Encounter," by Louise Gl?ck. But you would learn more about eros, and more about poetry, if you read any single volume by any one of these poets, or by James Schuyler or Paul Muldoon; single poems in anthologies (Lehman allows only one poem per author, with the baffling exceptions being Emily Dickinson and Olena Kalytiak Davis) cannot... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Lima Public Library Book ReviewsPosted 3 hours, 58 minutes ago. Mar 9, 2008
Shaggy Muses: the Dogs who Inspired Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edith Wharton and Emily Bronte by Maureen Adams (820. 99287 A). (Lima News, OH)
Whither Shakespeare? He's backeth, baby! Mar 6, 2008
Or that private Emily Dickinson would find the exhibitionism to blog. And who would have predicted that, in the Internet age, Abraham Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth would be friends. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
AVID learners Mar 4, 2008
One group of students compared the poetry of Emily Dickinson to Walt Whitman. Perla Santillan, 17, said she enjoyed reading Dickinsons Heart. (Anacortes Weekly, WA)
Ask Dog Lady: A literary bit of love and comfort Feb 26, 2008
Adams Shaggy Muses: The Dogs Who Inspired Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edith Wharton and Emily Bronte (Ballantine Books) is a splendid work detailing how dogs stirred the immortal writers. Dog Lady asked Adams to respond, and her cogent thesis arrived via e-mail. (Cambridge Chronicle, MA)
Chester County craftsman makes one-of-a-kind chests Feb 24, 2008
The couple s initials are monogrammed on the doors, which are also inscribed with verses from a favorite Emily Dickinson poem. The first time I saw it, I started to cry, it was so incredibly beautiful, Haile says. (Somerset Daily American, PA)
Poet Tafolla to kick off literary series Feb 23, 2008
Poets & Montgomery County Literary Arts Council Board members read at the Annual Emily Dickinson Birthday Celebration. Pictured are, from left, Chuck Taylor, Susan Woods, Carolyn Florek, Dianne Logan, Paul Ruffin, Wendy Barker, Larry Thomas (2008 Texas Poet Laureate), Sharon Klander, Paula Teague, Tony Hillerman, Janet McCann, Deseree Probasco, Ken Jones, Alicia Bankston, Randall Watson, Sarah Cortez, Cliff Hudder, Kenne Turner, Dave Parsons and Dan Rice. (Woodlands Villager, TX)
First massively micro game, 'Bac Attack,' wins design challenge Feb 23, 2008
In past years, themes have been games about love; games based on the poetry of Emily Dickinson; and games that could. This year's challenge, "The inter-species game," was to create a fleshed-out idea for a game that could be played cooperatively by both humans and members of another species. (CNET News.com)
