THE EMILY DICKINSON INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY Volume 31, Number 2 November/December 2019 “The Only News I know / Is Bulletins all Day / From Immortality.” Of one Corolla is the West In This Issue Officers Features Reviews President: Barbara Mossberg Vice-President: Elizabeth Petrino 4 ‘To another Sea’: Dickinson, Environment, and 27 New Publications Secretary: Adeline Chevrier-Bosseau the West: 2019 International Conference Renée Bergland, Book Review Editor Treasurer: James C. Fraser 16 Emily’s Light: An Interview between Artist Robert William Logan Board Members McCormick and Erica Funke, of WVIA Dickinson’s Nerves, Frost’s Woods Reviewed by Michael L. Manson Renée Bergland Páraic Finnerty Elizabeth Petrino 34 The Emily Dickinson Centennial Exhibition at Yale George Boziwick James C. Fraser Eliza Richards By Krans Bloeimaand 28 Dickinson, Apple TV Series Antoine Cazé James Guthrie Brooke Steinhauser Media Review by Annelise Brinck-Johnsen Adeline Chevrier-Bosseau Li-hsin Hsu (Honorary Member) 35 Elegy for Anne-Marie Paul Crumbley Daniel Manheim Marta Werner By Cynthia Hallen 30 Dickinson Tracks from Perth Stephanie Farrar Barbara Mossberg Jane Wald (Honorary Member) Music Review by Diana Wagner Series Legal Advisor: Louis N. Levine Chapter Development Chair: Renée Bergland Members’ News Nominations Chair: Páraic Finnerty Dickinson and the Arts Chair: Barbara Dana 20 Teaching Dickinson Membership Chair: Antoine Cazé Emily Dickinson Journal Editor: James Guthrie “’Tis Centuries – and yet’: Teaching Dickinson and 31 In Memoriam: Jed Deppman, 1967-2019 the Presence of the Past By Gary Lee Stonum Editor, EDIS Bulletin: Daniel Manheim By Elizabeth Sagaser Series Editor, Marianne Noble 33 “Stratford on Avon – accept us all!” 2020 Annual Meeting Sustaining Members 24 Poet to Poet A Wild Night and a New Road 33 CFP: Special Issue of Emily Dickinson Journal Antoine Cazé Robert Eberwein Wendy Martin By Faith Shearin on International Scholarship in Translation Richard Brantley Judith Farr Barbara Mossberg Series Editor, Jonnie Guerra Diane K. Busker David H. Forsyth Marianne Noble Scott Donaldson Diana K. Fraser Vivian R. Pollak Jane D. Eberwein James C. Fraser Martha Nell Smith Jonnie G. Guerra Front Cover: The title of the international conference, “‘To another Sea’: Dickinson, Environment, and the West,” brings to mind the many poems referring to the West, including the line from Fr1261. Contributing Members Back Cover: A selection of artist Robert McCormick’s watercolors appears on pages 18-19 of the issue. The image on the Carolyn L. Cooley Eleanor Heginbotham Daniel Manheim LeeAnn Gorthey Suzanne Juhasz Dean S. Skelley back cover is in acrylics. It’s title is This Consciousness, from Fr817. Niels Kjaer Robin Tarasov Special thanks are due to LeeAnn Gorthey for her always excellent photographs, as marked. Thanks, too, to Barbara EDIS gratefully acknowledges the generous financial contributions of these members. Mossberg, for providing images from the Saturday morning visit to the sea (on the front cover) as well as the cover photograph of herself adorned with hummingbirds. 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Hampson. www.emilydickinsoninternationalsociety.org 2 | EDIS Bulletin November/December 2019 | 3 To Another Sea To Another Sea “To another Sea”: Dickinson, Environment, and the West Asilomar Keynotes: Decades of Reflection Asilomar 2019 ecent keynote speakers at Dickinson Society meetings and conferences have often drilled deep into a wide range of topics – Edenic land- Rscapes; Dickinson and the Amherst College meterologist; the dance of Dickinson’s innovative language; Dickinson in the anthropocene. cean, mountains, forests, brooks – berg’s own initial comments, entitiled “This rected by Ted Gorodetszy, accompanied by OEmily Dickinson never visited the Tremendous Scene – This Whole Experi- Rhapsodist Daniel Neer and second pianist The Asilomar Conference offered, in presentations by writers long familiar as founding figures in modern Dickinson studies, three forty-year west, any more than she visited the sea, but ment of Green,” came the following morn- Eve Kodiak (see page 10). For the evening retrospectives on the experience of studying and writing on the poet through times when her work, and that of women authors generally, were EDIS members who gathered last August ing, when she presented reflections on Dick- keynote address, participants had the rare scarcely welcome in university curricula. In addition to EDIS President Barbara Mossberg herself, author of When a Writer is a Daughter at the Asilomar Conference Center in Pa- inson and the wild that prepared for the next opportunity of hearing Wendy Martin, the (1982), these presenters included Sandra Gilbert, who wrote, with Susan Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic (1979); Wendy Martin, whose cific Grove, west of Monterey, California, days’ papers. Beginning with “A little mad- founding editor of Women’s Studies, reflect- An American Triptych: Ann Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, Adrienne Rich (1984) helped establish a model way to view women poets writing found that the poet knew the place as if the ness / in the Spring” (Fr1356), and conjoin- ing on her “Fifty Years of Looking at Emily against the grain; and poet/scholar Alicia Ostriker, whose writings about poetry go back to the late 1970s, and who has, in numerous poems checks were given. The tree-surrounded ing it with “Nobody knows this little rose” Dickinson as a Woman.” throughout her career, engaged Dickinson’ voice and sensibility. cabins of Asilomar, designed to harmonize (Fr11), she explored the topic of Dickinson with Julia Morgan’s original design of the and the unfamiliar, the foreign, weaving her It would not be right to discuss Emily Dick- While full-text transcriptions of the addresses await future publication, the following accounts, two by Bulletin staff and one by the author central buildings, were within earshot of the own experiences as an internationally trav- inson at a seaside conference center without herself, may provide some sense of the breadth and power of these addresses. The article begins with Wendy Martin’s abridgement of her talk, surf, and a few intrepid Dickinsonians even elled Dickinson ambassador/scholar into her at least once donning appropriate garb, start- because it speaks to the academic context in which modern Dickinson studies began. braved the waves to kayak among the sea observations about how Dickinson can con- ing early, and visiting the sea – accompa- otters, as swift as eels and as charismatic