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Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson
Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson | Emily Dickinson
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For the first time, selections from Emily Dickinson's thirty-six year correspondence with her childhood friend, neighbor, and sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Dickinson, are compiled in a single volume. Open Me Carefully invites a dramatic new understanding of Emily Dickinson's life and work, overcoming a century of censorship and misinterpretation. For the millions of readers who love Emily Dickinson's poetry, Open Me Carefully brings new light to the meaning of the poet's life and work. Gone is Emily as lonely spinster; here is Dickinson in her own words, passionate and fully alive. With spare commentary, Smith ... and Hart ... let these letters speak for themselves. Most important, unlike previous editors who altered line breaks to fit their sense of what is poetry or prose, Hart and Smith offer faithful reproductions of the letters' genre-defying form as the words unravel spectacularly down the original page. Renee Tursi, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
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In the new film, Wild Nights with Emily, Molly Shannon gives us an Emily Dickinson to root for. So much better than that syrupy Belle of Amherst play or the somber Emily of the movie A Quiet Passion. An accurate portrayal? Who knows? Much of the tale, however, fits with what is known about Dickinson‘s 30+ years relationship and correspondence (found in the book Open Me Carefully) with her sister-in-law, Susan Dickinson. Whimsical and fun. #movie

Fridameetslucy Just saw the film and loved it. It not only normalizes Dickenson it left me with big questions about how academia and popular culture needed her to be “reclusive” and a “spinster” Dickenson was not understood in her lifetime for much the same reasons that she is so narrowly defined in ours. @Theaelizabet (edited) 6y
Theaelizabet I agree. I especially loved the scene between her and T. W. Higginson. It rang so true and explained so much. @Fridameetslucy 6y
Fridameetslucy @Theaelizabet. Right! And then the succession of one mansplaining dullard publisher after the other !!! (edited) 6y
Suet624 I saw the film this weekend. Had no idea what it was about - just a random selection and Molly Shannon! So good! 5y
Theaelizabet @Suet624 It was, wasn‘t it? And fun! 5y
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