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San José Studies, Fall 1987 San Jose State University SJSU ScholarWorks San José Studies, 1980s San José Studies Fall 10-1-1987 San José Studies, Fall 1987 San José State University Foundation Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sanjosestudies_80s Part of the American Literature Commons, and the Literature in English, North America Commons Recommended Citation San José State University Foundation, "San José Studies, Fall 1987" (1987). San José Studies, 1980s. 24. https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sanjosestudies_80s/24 This Journal is brought to you for free and open access by the San José Studies at SJSU ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in San José Studies, 1980s by an authorized administrator of SJSU ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. •^j Fall 1987 iff o- '' C y ^—.y /•"*p< ' > d i' ' 9-1 r ' f e. c ^ y €:y~c ^ ycd^t€-tf 'd San Jose State University r - •• jQyfpg| gf the Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, Sciences, and Business. d.- '<, ''' «- 9-C-^i c'-' Cjfr Jd:Ay--. ^'y//''- «. y d-yt y-^r d^i'ddrydy^y fiUid Xi." yi- SAN JOSE STUDIES Volume XIII, Number 3 Fall, 1987 EDITOR Fauneil J. Rinn, Political Science and American Studies, San Jose State University ASSOCIATE EDITORS Billie B. Jensen, History, San JoseState University Harold J. DeBey, Chemistry, San Jose State University Allison Heisch, English and Humanities, San Jose State University EDITORIAL BOARD Garland E. Allen, Biology, Washington University Judith P. Breen, English, San Francisco State University John A. Brennan, History, University of Colorado, Boulder Hobert W. Burns, Philosophy, San Jose State University Robert Casillo, English, University of Miami, Coral Gables Lee Edwards, English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Richard Flanagan, Creative Writing, Babson College Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi, English, Stanford University Robert C. Gordon, English and Humanities, San Jose State University Richard Ingraham, Biology, San Jose State University Richard E. Keady, Religious Studies, San Jose State University Jack Kurzweil, Electrical Engineering, San Jose State University Lela A. Llorens, Occupational Therapy, San Jose State University William J. Rewak, English, Santa Clara University Richard A. Scott, Business, University of Arizona Dwight Van de Vate, Jr., Philosophy, The University of Tennessee Ellen C. Weaver, Biological Sciences, San Jose State University COMMITTEE OF TRUSTEES Jean Beard T. M. Norton Marshall J. Burak Elsie Leach Charles Burdick Arlene N. Okerlund Selma R. Burkom Rose Tseng John A. Galm O.C. Williams, Chairman BUSINESS MANAGER Emi Nobuhiro GRAPHIC CONSULTANTS A1 Beechick Laura Chau ©San Jose State University Foundation, 1987 ISSN: 0097-8051 SAN JOSE STUDIES Volume XIII, Number 3 Fall, 1987 SPECIAL SECTION ON EMILY DICKINSON AND H.D. 'To Fill a Gap" Martha Nell Smith . 3 "omitted centers": Emily Dickinson's Metonymic Strategy Sherri Williams .. ....... ... .......... ... ............ .. ... 26 Mina Loy's "Love Songs" and the Limits of Imagism Carolyn Burke . ..... ...... ... .. .. ..... ... .... .. 37 By Impression Re-Called Cynthia J. Goheen. .. .... .. ....... .. ...... .... .. .... 47 "Love Is Writing": Eros in H.D.'s HERmione Rebecca Blevins Faery ........... .. .... : . .. .. .. ...... .... 56 The Pursuit of Spirituality in the Poetry of H.D. Dawn Kolokithas. .... ...... ... ... ......... .. ...... .. .. 66 The Spell of the Luxor Bee Rosie King-S myth . ............. .. .......... .. ...... 77 Myth and Glyph in Helen in Egypt Jeanne Larsen . .. .. .. .. .... ........ ....... ... .. .. ... 88 Letter from Emily Nils Peterson .. .. ....... ... ...... ....... ........ ... 102 James Laughlin, five poems .. .. .. ... .. ........ .... ... 103 Alan Seaburg, two poems ... .. ...... .. ... .. .. .... .. .. ... 107 Harold Witt, two poems . .. .......... ................ ... .. 108 Style and Proportion: Josephine Miles as Example Suzanne Juhasz . .. ....... .... ... .. ....... .. .... ..... 109 Summer on Ararat, short story Robert Wexelblatt . .. .. ..... ... ..... .. ........ .. ... 123 Emily Dickinson-H.D. Dual Centennial Section San Jose Studies invited participants to submit essays developed from or related to presentations to Companions of the Flame: Em ily Dickinson-H.D. Dual Centennial Colloquium sponsored by the San Jose Poetry Center and San Jose State University, October 22-25, 1986. Selections from these submissions make up the following special sec­ tion, which was underwritten by the English Department of San Jose State University and San Jose Poetry Center. In turn, the Center was sup­ ported in presenting the Colloquium with a generous grant from: The California Council for the Humanities, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities and matching contributions from: The Eastman Foundation Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, SJSU Chapter The San Jose Mercury News Spartan Shops SUPRO. Programs of San Jose Poetry Center are made possible in part by grants from: California Arts Council The Community Foundation of Santa Clara County The Fine Arts Commission of the City of San Jose The Music and Arts Foundation of Santa Clara County The National Endowment for the Arts The Valley Foundation Russ and Carolyn Campbell William and Jean Emerson Gerald L. and Stephanie Pressman Charles and Frances Roberts Jack and Mary Lou Taylor and with the cooperation of the English Department of San Jose State University. The editors of San Jose Studies gratefully acknowledge the assistance as consulting editor of Alan Soldofsky, executive director of San Jose Poetry Center. Reprinted by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of Amherst College fro m The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Thomas H. Johnson, ed., Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Copyright 1951, © 1955, 1979, 1983 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. From The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, edited by Thomas H . Jo hnson. Copyright 1914, 1929, 1935, 1942 by Martha Dickinson Bianchi; Copyright © renewed 1957, 1963 by Mary L. Hampson. Reprinted by permission of Little, Brown and Company. Reprinted by permission of the publishers from The Letters of Emily Dickinson, edited by Thomas H . Johnson, Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard Universit y Press, Copyright © 1958, 1986 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. ''To Fill a Gap''* Martha Nell Smith UPPOSE we take seriously Emily Dickinson's declaration that she S"did not print" (L 316, early 1866) and recognize that she was deliberate, not desperate, when she "replied declining" to someone who requested that she "aid the world" by allowing her poems to appear in print (L 380, late 1872?). 1 If, in fact, she devised her own method of pub­ lication, which was to send her poems out in letters, then the manu­ scripts themselves, not their printed versions, should be the locus of study. After all, if she was publishing herself, then her pencil or pen was her printing press and her orthography her typeface; and holographs like that of "The Sea said/ "Come" to the Brook-" (Set 11; P 1210), in which the "S's" are shaped like waves and the "Ts" formed to resemble choppy seas, indicate that eschewing that foul auction, conventional publication (P 709), freed her to appropriate even calligraphy for her poetic practice. 2 Such strategies are, of course, lost to us in printed transcriptions. Further, to study Dickinson's major correspondences in transcription is made especially problematic by the evidence that-at least according to his lover Mabel Loomis Todd-Dickinson's brother, Austin, changed his sister's epistolary record by scissoring and erasing passages about his wife that he deemed too private to print. These and other gaps have *Emily Dickinson's manuscripts are quoted by permission of the Trustees of Amherst College and by permission of the Houghton Library and will be indicated by '14. " and the appropriate library catalog number. The Amherst College numbering system usually designates leaves of a given manuscript, beyond the first, by the main number followed by "a," "b," "c," etc., and references to specific leaves reflect this system (e.g. , of L 233 the first leaf is numbered 828, the second 828a, etc.). Occasionally, however, the verso of a leaf is lettered. In all cases I have followed the actual numbering, indicating the verso of a leaf by superscript "v." I would like to thank John Lancaster, Special Collections Librarian, Amherst College Library, and Rodney G. Dennis, Curator of Manuscripts, Houghton Library of Harvard University; without their cooperation, this study, in which examination of the holographs made such a profound difference, would not have been possible. 3 Emily Dickinson at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, 1847 or 1848. Photograph used by the courtesy of the Amherst College Archives. 4 caused distortions in the critical treatment of Emily Dickinson, and have in turn prompted this study, the focus of which is principally on the imposed silences about the poet's love for her sister-in-law and which closes with attention to her attachment for her mother. Sitting in the Frost Library at Amherst College, poring over erasures, gaping at scissorings, I was aghast that, just as Thomas Johnson had said, it was really true: some of Dickinson's letters and poems had been "muti­ lated" and otherwise tampered with. Especially penetrating was the pen­ cilled "like you" that I found in the "Master" letter beginning "If you saw a bullet hit a Bird" (L 233).3 Three drafts to an addressee or addressees unknown,
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