Susan Howe and others discuss "My Emily Dickinson" in 1984

Susan Howe & others discuss Emily Dickinson, 1984

“New York Talk,” at 300 Bowery, New York, curated and moderated by Charles Bernstein. On Feburary 24, 1984, Susan Howe read from My Emily Dickinson, and then discussed the book — and Dickinson — with Bernstein, George Butterick, Madeline Keller, Jeanne Lance, Lydia Davis, Edie Jarolim, Janet Chalmers, Eliot Weinberger, George-Thérèse Dickenson. The recording was recently segmented at PennSound.

  1. Dickinson’s mixing of pronouns (2:08): MP3
  2. Dickinson and Higginson (6:52): MP3
  3. shifting values and ambiguity in relation to Dickinson’s writing (8:50): MP3
  4. Dickinson’s master letters (0:48): MP3
  5. ambiguity and uncertainty as a different epistemological (3:06): MP3
  6. sovereignty in relation to ambiguity (3:14): MP3
  7. on Dickinson’s reclusiveness (4:23): MP3
  8. the recurrence of the color white (1:20): MP3
  9. working out of the English male tradition and political issues in Dickinson’s poetry (4:23): MP3
  10. Sewall on Mabel Loomis Todd and Austin Dickinson (2:45): MP3
  11. coming to Dickinson from the perspective of a 20th-century woman (5:14): MP3
  12. on the officially accepted interpretations of Emily Dickinson (12:31): MP3
  13. on power in inconclusiveness (2:15): MP3
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