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The Poems (We Think) We Know: Emily Dickinson
“I’m Nobody! Who are you?” Writer Alexandra Socarides teaches us how to play Mad-Libs with Emily Dickinson poems....
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Alexandra Socarides
Alexandra Socarides received her PhD in English from Rutgers University in 2007. Her first book, Dickinson Unbound: Paper, Process, Poetics, was published by Oxford University Press in June 2012. She is currently at work on a new book, which reads antebellum American women's poetry through the tropes, conventions, and postures made possible by the transatlantic literary marketplace. She is also the co-editor of The Poetry of Charles Brockden Brown, which will be published by Bucknell University Press in 2015.
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For Emily, Wherever I May Find Her: On Paul Legault’s Emily Dickinson
FIRST THINGS FIRST: It’s a joke. If you don’t get that — that it’s a joke — then you are going to be enraged, or disgruntled, or just downright annoyed by The Emily Dickinson Reader. ...
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