{"product_id":"9781861713728","title":"Wild Nights: Selected Poems","description":"EMILY DICKINSON: WILD NIGHTS: SELECTED POEMS\u003cp\u003eselected and introduced by Miriam Chalk\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the most extraordinary poets of any era, American poetess Emily Dickinson wrote a huge amount of poetry (nearly 1800 poems). This book ranges from her early work to the late pieces, and features many of Dickinson's most famous pieces. This new edition includes many new poems. \u003cbr\u003eEmily Dickinson's poetry is among the strangest, the mostcompelling and the most direct in world literature. There isnothing else quite like it. She writes in short lyrics, often onlyeight lines long, often in regular quatrains, but often in irregularlines consisting of two half-lines joined in the middle by a dash(such as: ''Tis Honour - though I die' in \"Had I presumed to hope\"). \u003cbr\u003eHer subjects appear to be the traditional ones of poetry,blocked in with capital letters: God, Love, Hope, Time, Nature, the Sea, the Sun, the World, Childhood, the Past, and so on. Yet what exactly is Dickinson discussing? Who is the 'I', the 'Thee', the 'we' and the 'you' in her poetry? This is where things become much more ambiguous. Dickinson is very clear at times in her poetry, until one considers deeper exactly what she is saying - but this ambiguity is one of the hallmarks and the delights of her art. \u003cbr\u003eAs an example of Emily Dickinson's idiosyncratic use of punctuation, particularly the dash, this is from \"Behind me - dips Eternity\": \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBehind me - dips Eternity - \u003cbr\u003eBefore Me - Immortality - \u003cbr\u003eMyself - the Term \u003cbr\u003eDeath but the Drift of Eastern Gray,\u003cbr\u003eDissolving into Dawn away,\u003cbr\u003eBefore the West -\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo other poet has made such a distinctive use of the dash which does for full stops, commas, colons and semi-colons. The dash serves to break up the flow of Dickinson's verse, but it also connects together a series of thoughts. The only other poet I can think of who uses the dash so profusely is Arthur Rimbaud. As with Rimbaud, Dickinson's use of the dash hints at a rush of information, one phrase piling on top of the other. It is a rush ofdata which's sometimes found in mystical writings. As withRimbaud, Dickinson's poetry sometimes looks as if she were veryexcited, as if the experience in the poetry is threatening to erupt out of the form of the verse.\u003cbr\u003eSome poets went for using punctuation at all (or very little), which we find in poets such as Ezra Pound or Allen Ginsberg. With Dickinson, though, there is no (or not much) difficulty in how she is trying to speak. There is ambiguity, but it is not the same as the ambiguities in Joyce or Stein. Dickinson also employs a profusion of exclamation marks - as many (if not more) than the equally exuberant Romantic poets. There is a state that Dickinson's poetic persona gets into, that requires the use of exclamation marks to communicate her exultation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncludes an introduction, bibliography, notes. 124 pages. \u003cbr\u003eAlso available in hardcover. \u003cbr\u003ewww.crmoon.com\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Crescent Moon Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47043561750768,"sku":"9781861713728","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781861713728_p0.jpg?v=1763600800","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781861713728","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}