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In Emily's Style?I wrote the poems below after a period of teaching Emily Dickinson to eleventh graders in an American literature course. I had been playing the Julie Harris recordings of her letters during that week, and later, sitting in the English Independent Study area, wrote the first four of these spontaneously, one after the other. Later that day, I discovered that I had been writing on the 100th anniversary of her death, via the belated obituary published that day in The New York Times. A few days later, the fifth poem came.
Poems 1-4 first published in 1975 in The Higginson Journal of Poetry, No. 12. (Note: The journal is not connected with my husband, William J. Higginson.) Poem 5 is published here for the first time. Emily Dickinson? The image at the top of this web page, possibly of Emily Dickinson as an adult, is reproduced from a photograph owned by Prof. Philip F. Gura, of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and is used here by his kind permission. For a discussion of the image and its possible connection with Emily Dickinson, as well as larger images of recto and verso, see his web page on the subject. Penny |
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