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Branching Out New Orleans: Eamon Grennan on Emily Dickinson

Identity to Seek: The Selves of Emily

Apr 21, 2007 | 2:00 pm

This talk, “Identity to Seek: The Selves of Emily,” engages with a number of the poems of Emily Dickinson, in order to think about her as a poet who reveals to us, in her nature as a fragmented or multiple self, something about what lyric poetry is and means. I connect her work with some of the remarks Keats makes about the character of the poet, as well as placing her in a lyric context containing such poets as Yeats, Whitman, and Stevens. By closely attending to a few of her poems, I try to see how her extraordinary imagination “works” with language to act out or embody the serious, risky play of consciousness itself. — Eamon Grennan

A joint initiative with the Poetry Society of America, Branching Out: Poetry for the 21st Century is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Location Milton H. Latter Memorial Branch 5120 St. Charles Avenue New Orleans, LA Sponsored By Poets House

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Apr 21, 2007
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2:00 pm
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