Description: These Fevered Days by Martha Ackmann An engaging, intimate portrait of Emily Dickinson that sheds new light on her ground-breaking poetry. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description On August 3, 1845, young Emily Dickinson declared, ?All things are ready? and with this resolute statement, her life as a poet began. Despite spending her days almost entirely ?at home? (the occupation listed on her death certificate), Dickinsons interior world was extraordinary. She loved passionately, was hesitant about publication, embraced seclusion, and created 1,789 poems that she tucked into a dresser drawer. In These Fevered Days, Martha Ackmann unravels the mysteries of Dickinsons life through ten decisive episodes that distill her evolution as a poet. Ackmann follows Dickinson through her religious crisis while a student at Mount Holyoke, which prefigured her lifelong ambivalence toward organized religion and her deep, private spirituality. We see the poet through her exhilarating frenzy of composition, through which we come to understand her fiercely self-critical eye and her relationship with sister-in-law and first reader, Susan Dickinson. Contrary to her reputation as a recluse, Dickinson makes the startling decision to ask a famous editor for advice, writes anguished letters to an unidentified ?Master,? and keeps up a lifelong friendship with writer Helen Hunt Jackson. At the peak of her literary productivity, she is seized with despair in confronting possible blindness. Utilizing thousands of archival letters and poems as well as never-before-seen photos, These Fevered Days constructs a remarkable map of Emily Dickinsons inner life. Together, these ten days provide new insights into her wildly original poetry and render an ?enjoyable and absorbing? (Scott Bradfield, Washington Post) portrait of American literatures most enigmatic figure. Author Biography Martha Ackmann, author of These Fevered Days, Curveball, and The Mercury 13, writes about women who have changed America. The recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, Ackmann taught a popular seminar on Dickinson at Mount Holyoke College and lives in western Massachusetts. Review "Martha Ackmann is a rare scholar. She is steeped in her subjects work, but also fills her book with the light and sounds of Dickinsons home. Dickinson is at once the most mysterious and yet most accessible of American poets, and she led what has been called the most remarkable unremarkable life in American letters. Ackmann does justice to this creative paradox in her warm and stirring book." -- Cullen Murphy - The Atlantic Review Quote The Emily Dickinson who emerges in this vivid, affectionate chronicle is a complex and warm-blooded individual--as curious, defiant of convention, and passionate in life as in her poems.--The New Yorker A lucid narrative grounded in solid research colored by appreciative warmth... These Fevered Days makes Dickinsons exploration of that wild terrain [of the mind] and that continent of language palpable, exciting, and accessible.--Boston Globe I quickly came to treasure Ackmanns ample descriptions, her deep knowledge of the poets milieu...[ These Fevered Days is] thoroughly researched, and yet, with Ackmanns energetic storytelling, alive.--Megan Marshall, New York Times Book Review Enjoyable and absorbing...Dickinson--a poet of those small, insignificant moments that suddenly blossom into wide, disturbing vistas of significance--fits Ackmanns model neatly.--Scott Bradfield, Washington Post Ackmann conducted extensive research and relied on Dickinsons letters to create a sense of her interior life...[She] weaves those clues together beautifully in prose that reads like page-turning fiction...[A] wonderful biography that illustrates the complexity of Dickinsons life.--Elizabeth Lund, Christian Science Monitor Highly readable...By the end, youll be a believer, in part because of Ackmanns grasp on her subject--both the mountains of scholarship on Dickinson as well as the poets historical and cultural milieu--and Ackmanns own formidable gifts as a storyteller.--Ann Levin, Associated Press Martha Ackmann is a rare scholar. She is steeped in her subjects work, but also fills her book with the light and sounds of Dickinsons home. Dickinson is at once the most mysterious and yet most accessible of American poets, and she led what has been called the most remarkable unremarkable life in American letters. Ackmann does justice to this creative paradox in her warm and stirring book.--Cullen Murphy, Editor-at-Large for the Atlantic Using an ingenious device to capture the whole of Emily Dickinsons life by presenting it in ten distinct tableaux, Martha Ackmann illuminates the poet from her first word as a toddler, music, to her final written ones, called back. In These Fevered Days , the author describes a gift from Dickinson to a friend as exquisite, tender, and intimate, words that aptly describe Ackmanns latest triumph.--Madeleine Blais, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist This utterly enchanting book invites us into the world Emily Dickinson inhabited and made. With exquisite sensitivity to poet and place, Martha Ackmann illuminates a life simple and complex. Treasures abound on every page.--Ellen Fitzpatrick, author of The Highest Glass Ceiling These Fevered Days is a contemplative, sometimes lyrical effort to unlock several of the most important moments of Emily Dickinsons mysterious life. The book brings readers deeply into Emilys world: the sights she sees from the window of her room, the people with whom she corresponds, the sounds of daily life on the streets of nineteenth-century Amherst. Weaving together numerous sources, Ackmanns narrative provides thoughtful insights into both the poet and her craft.--Julie Dobrow, author of After Emily Gifted storyteller Martha Ackmann deciphers with fresh and compelling insights ten transformational moments in the development of Emily Dickinsons mind. These Fevered Days invites us into the experiences that led Dickinson to assert her ambitions as an artist and decisions as a poet with a vivid immediacy rare among biographical works.--Jane Wald, executive director, Emily Dickinson Museum Details ISBN0393867536 Author Martha Ackmann Short Title These Fevered Days Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 0393867536 ISBN-13 9780393867534 Format Paperback Subtitle Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson Publication Date 2021-08-27 UK Release Date 2021-08-27 Imprint WW Norton & Co Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Illustrations 16 pages of black-and-white illustrations NZ Release Date 2021-08-27 US Release Date 2021-08-27 Pages 336 Publisher WW Norton & Co Alternative 9780393609301 DEWEY 811.4 Audience General AU Release Date 2021-08-26 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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Book Title: These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson
Item Height: 211mm
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Author: Martha Ackmann
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Literature, Zoology
Publisher: Ww Norton & Co
Publication Year: 2021
Type: Textbook
Genre: Biographies & True Stories
Item Weight: 266g
Number of Pages: 336 Pages
