Telltale: Reading writing remembering
Transit Lounge, $32.99 hb, 274 pp
Memoir
Weaving and brewing
A lifetime of bookish immersion
by Gregory Day •
In 1985, the American poet and essayist Susan Howe deftly jettisoned any pretensions to objectivity in the field of literary analysis with her ground-breaking critical work My Emily Dickinson. The possessive pronoun in Howe’s title says it all: when a writer’s work goes out to its readers, it reignites in any number of imaginative and emotional contexts. What rich and varied screens we project onto everything we read.
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