tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post3290429277590524765..comments2024-03-20T14:31:49.238-07:00Comments on mole: The Life of Emily DickinsonDalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14523194846272870013noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-7324118389683818692012-10-21T14:31:50.831-07:002012-10-21T14:31:50.831-07:00I, too, appreciate your honesty--here in how you c...I, too, appreciate your honesty--here in how you connect to or interpret her possible life story. I read the Sewall biography some years ago, preparing to perform The Belle of Amherst, and a hefty recent bio by Cynthia Griffin Wolff that also improved my understanding of Emily's time (death ever present, so common) as well as her personality--bringing in new info & evidence, too.Kathleenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06559881249054540947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-87490538691253090672012-10-21T06:45:41.566-07:002012-10-21T06:45:41.566-07:00What I love about this post is your honesty about ...What I love about this post is your honesty about the desire to read your own story into Dickinson's, at least on some level. Isn't that what we all do? But we so rarely admit that that's the yearning which motivates us to read a poet in a particular way.rbarenblathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10882606147795083729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-37241309615686696832012-10-21T06:45:28.985-07:002012-10-21T06:45:28.985-07:00Aside from a cursory pop culture awareness, and a ...Aside from a cursory pop culture awareness, and a poem required to be memorized in school, I don't know Dickinson. But I've been reading Le Carre for years. He's been pushed to write an autobiography for a very long time. I always think, well, all his books are about his journey, and The Perfect Spy is probably a more truthful biography, if not strictly factual, than could be written otherwise. Does having a more literal reason make a writer's own truths - expressed in the way they felt most descriptive, be it poetry or fiction or music, make it any more true? Zhoenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03515663141425057088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-88320768599752422162012-10-21T02:33:46.270-07:002012-10-21T02:33:46.270-07:00There is a novel in Emily Dickinson's voice wh...There is a novel in Emily Dickinson's voice which you might read, "The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson" by Jerome Charyn. I was inspired to start a FB community around it. The author has announced his next novel (also for Norton) will be about Abraham Lincoln. - Lenore Riegel [Here's a link to the Author's Guide to Secret Life: http://books.wwnorton.com/books/ReadingGuidesDetail.aspx?ID=17319&CID=17221&tid=3288&tcid=]The Secret Life of Emily Dickinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11260869904904292715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-72828493481366028522012-10-20T23:11:42.166-07:002012-10-20T23:11:42.166-07:00I've never read a Dickinson bio, but, you know...I've never read a Dickinson bio, but, you know, I've read all of these Lincoln bios. The different theories these writers posit on him! I enjoy most of the attempts, and I'm left wondering if the guy was all or none or if we're all all or none.<br /><br />Maybe famous dead people bring us together. Liberals and many conservatives claim Lincoln; I think people in different literary camps like Dickinson. Sure, we don't agree on what we mean by Lincoln any more than we agree on what we mean by America, but at least he keeps returning, as anyone would, full bodied and beyond anyone's conception.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-35166980870103546202012-10-20T22:39:03.830-07:002012-10-20T22:39:03.830-07:00I have been moved to comment on all your ED posts ...I have been moved to comment on all your ED posts (not erectile dysfunction) but have held back. It's a little embarrassing. I have not followed poetry after having written it and loved it only when much younger. When I went dry, I ignored the whole genre, and never fell back in. But at that time, when I was writing and loving poetry, I didn't care for Emily Dickinson. I thought she was too simple. I haven't gone back, but now I will. Because I recognize a parallel failing: I used to think the same about Mozart. I did stay with my music, and now I see how wrong I was. (Very, very wrong.) So it's time to revisit your friend.Murr Brewsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03422638986410813520noreply@blogger.com