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Nov-Dec 2017 THE EMILY DICKINSON INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY Volume 29, Number 2 November/December 2017 “The Only News I know / Is Bulletins all Day / From Immortality.” In This Issue Officers Features Series, continued President: Martha Nell Smith Vice-President: Barbara Mossberg 4 Edenic Possibilites: 2017 Annual Meeting 14 Dickinson and the Arts Secretary: Nancy List Pridgen Industrious Angels. Yes. Treasurer: James C. Fraser 7 Music at the Annual Meeting: Jane Ira Bloom By Laurie McCants and The Red Skies Ensemble Series Editor, Barbara Dana By Emily Seelbinder Board Members 8 Stop 6: White Oak Reviews Faith Barrett Páraic Finnerty Eliza Richards By Sharon Hamilton Renée Bergland James C. Fraser Martha Nell Smith 19 New Publications George Boziwick Michelle Kohler Brooke Steinhauser 9 The Scholars’ Circle Renée Bergland, Book Review Editor Antoine Cazé Barbara Mossberg (Honorary Member) By Eleanor Heginbotham Paul Crumbley Elizabeth Petrino Marta Werner 23 A Quieter Passion: a Review of My Letter Stephanie Farrar Vivian Pollak Jane Wald (Honorary Member) 26 Poems by Judith Farr to the World By Susan Snively “The Other Hemisphere” Legal Advisor: Louis N. Levine Local Chapters Committee Chair: Eleanor Heginbotham By George Monteiro Nominations Committee Chair: Páraic Finnerty Arts Committee Chair: Barbara Dana Members’ News Membership Committee Chair: Elizabeth Petrino Emily Dickinson Journal Editor: James Guthrie Series 28 New EDIS Board Member-At-Large: Stephanie Editor, EDIS Bulletin: Daniel Manheim Farrar 10 Poet to Poet “Then There’s a Pair of Us” 29 The Belle Behind Bars: Teaching Dickinson Sustaining Members By Liza Wieland in Prison Series Editor, Jonnie Guerra Mary Elizabeth Bernard Robert Eberwein Trisha Kannan Antoine Cazé Judith Farr Helen Koukoutsis 31 The Many “Lives” of an Emily Dickinson Richard Brantley David H. Forsyth Barbara Mossberg 12 Teaching Dickinson Year Book Jane D. Eberwein James C. Fraser Martha Nell Smith “Old the Grace, but new the Subjects – ” By Krans Bloeimaand By Jane Donahue Eberwein Series Editor, Marianne Noble Contributing Members Felicia Nimue Ackerman Eleanor Heginbotham Marianne Noble Carolyn L. Cooley Suzanne Juhasz Eliza Richards The Bulletin is particularly grateful to Laurie McCants for her contribution to the Dickinson and the Arts series, Barbara Dana Rita Brady Kiefer George T. Slone “Industrious Angels. Yes.” The collage appearing on the front cover contains the “thematic threads” she found Marie Esteve Niels Kjaer Ethan Tarasov herself drawing together as she worked on her play. It features two works by Mexican artist Remedios Varo, LeeAnn Gorthey Eleanor Linafelt Robin Tarasov Sharon Hamilton Greg Mattingly Hiroko Uno Encounter (1959) and Unsubmissive Plant (1961). The images on the back cover include, clockwise from the left, Linda Healy Cristanne Miller Lingling Xiang three photographs taken by Sharon Hamilton at the Annual Meeting, and at the bottom, one of the water colors that Victoria Dickson created to demonstrate Amherst’s “Edenic Possibilities.” EDIS gratefully acknowledges the generous financial contributions of these members. EDIS Bulletin (ISSN 1055-3932) is published twice yearly, May/June and November/December, by The Emily Dickinson International Society, Inc. Standard Mail non-prof- The Assistant Editor for this issue is Allyson Weglar it postage is paid at Lexington, KY 40511. Membership in the Society is open to all persons with an interest in Emily Dickinson and her work. For further information, contact Martha Nell Smith, President, EDIS, Department of English, 2119 Tawes Hall, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, or mnsmith@umd.edu. 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Submission deadlines are March 1 (Spring issue) and September 1 (Fall issue). All articles become the property of the Bulletin. Back issues are from The Letters of Emily Dickinson, Thomas H. Johnson, ed., Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Copyright © 1958, 1986 by the President available for $5.00 each from the editor. Copyright © 2017 by The Emily Dickinson Society, Inc. The Bulletin is indexed in EBSCO, Humanities International Complete, and Fellows of Harvard College; 1914, 1924, 1932, 1942 by Martha Dickinson Bianchi; 1952 by Alfred Leete Hampson; 1960 by Mary L. Hampson. and the MLA Bibliography. www.emilydickinsoninternationalsociety.org 2 | EDIS Bulletin November/December 2017 | 3 Annual Meeting Annual Meeting “ponders this tremendous scene . / As if tween artist and audience there must be a of “Emily,” Rosson read the poem as sug- Edenic Possibilities: it were his own.” Dickinson’s redeeming medium, some intervening substance, since gesting that contact requires separation, Enkidu figure is the poet who, instead of interiors are by their nature not open to since the actions of authorship are literally 2017 Annual Meeting claiming mastery of the land, speculates those on the outside. Mabel Loomis Todd’s immaterial. Dickinson was using material in imagination what it would truly mean arrival in Amherst presented an opportu- separation to underscore how privacy is the to “own” the “tremendous” scene. Dickin- nity to realize and explore this phenome- condition of an author’s ability to make in- son’s eco-poetics turned out to anticipate non. Todd wanted to know Dickinson, but teriors intelligible. such activists as John Muir and his disciple was forced to know her in a mediated way; n August 11th and 12th, Dickinson So- candidate at West Virginia University) Julia Butterfly Hill, modern Enkidu figures Dickinson used her letters to Todd to ex- Other writings from the period played with Ociety members convened in Amherst described Staley’s project of reproducing who invite us to register the emergent tre- plore and convey her idea of what author- the same basic model. Obscurity, privacy, is for a concentrated and illuminating explo- the soundscape of Dickinson’s garden. mendousness of nature’s immanence and ship is all about for her. In other words, repeatedly an attempt to be seen as an “en- ration of the 2017 topic, “Edenic Possibili- Staley is in the process of recording the evanescence. physical separation modeled the idea of hanced” way to intimacy. In “Sunset that ties.” The principal highlights were discus- current soundscape at the Homestead, authorship she was trying to define. screens, reveals – ” (Fr1644), the “moats sion groups and keynote addresses by two which she plans to compare to evidence Day two featured two fascinating keynote of Mystery” in the final line – barriers that graduate students taking Dickinson studies of the surrounding sounds in letters and addresses. In the first, Grant Rosson, cur- In late 1881, Dickinson wrote Todd her deny access – nevertheless have the power in new directions, as well as a variety of poems. She hopes to produce a record of rently in his sixth year at UCLA, presented first short note, in which she asked, “The of “Enhancing what we see.” That which musical and dramatic performances. There the “soundscape ecology” of the Home- a talk called “Dickinson’s Interiors: A The- parting of those that never met, shall it “screens, reveals.” Hiding provided an en- was also another session of the increasingly stead as a way of contributing to our sense ory of Authorship in the Todd Correspon- be delusion, or rather, an unfolding snare hanced liberty. Dickinson signed an 1885 popular Critical Institute, for young schol- of what it meant for Dickinson to “listen dence.” The paper comes from his disserta- whose fruitage is later?” Acknowledging letter to Mabel, “America” (L1004; Mabel ars wanting criticism of works in progress. to the world.” tion on geography and nineteenth-century that the two “never met,” she offers a series was in England), in order to emphasize that American literature. In his paper, Rosson of potential alternative models of connec- while public liberty limited Mabel to a par- The three Discussion Groups took place on Terence Davies’ filmA Quiet Passion was addressed the question of how a dimen- tion: “snare,” “fruitage,” “unfolding.” The ticular place, the poet, in isolation, could the first afternoon of the Annual Meeting. the subject of a Discussion Group called sion of Dickinson’s concept of authorship note beckons as it baffles. An 1882 poem extend her boundaries everywhere.
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