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Language as Object: Emily Dickinson and Contemporary Art

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From: The Virginia Quarterly Review
Date: 19980101
Author:Anonymous

Language as Object: Emily Dickinson and Contemporary Art, edited by Susan Danly.

Published in conjunction with the recent exhibition of the same name at the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, this book is quite a revelation, and an extremely important touchstone for anyone interested in how Dickinson has influenced contemporary arts. What makes this book so exciting to read is its hybrid nature; it includes three thoughtful essays on Dickinson, a portfolio of 20th-century American poems by Hart Crane, Adrienne Rich, and others that tackles the ellipses of Dickinson, and then the art itself, ...

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