Tag Archives: Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson’s Africa

Posted on June 19, 2013 by wcd2

June 19, 2013 Whitman’s “Ethiopia Saluting the Colors” (written during Sherman’s Savannah Campaign) has offended some readers; it also has the distinction of being set to music — by the African American composer, H.T. Burleigh. Dickinson’s Ethiopia isn’t so well … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Contemporary novel, Global South, Nineteenth-century literature, Race | Tagged Aife Murray, Amherst, Austin Dickinson, Barbara Kingsolver, Civil War, Congo, e, Emily Dickinson, Ethiopia Saluting the Colors, General Sherman, H.T. Burleigh, Mabel Loomis Todd, Savannah Campaign, Springfield Republican, The Poisonwood Bible, Walt Whitman | 3 Comments

Natasha Trethewey, Emily Dickinson: Partners in Crime

Posted on June 12, 2013 by wcd2

June 12, 2013 In her interview in the LA Review of Books (just out), Natasha Trethewey mentions only Derek Walcott and Robert Penn Warren as poets who touch her at moments of mass fatalities. But I’d like to think that … Continue reading →

Posted in African-American literature, contemporary poetry, Crime Fiction, Nineteenth-century literature, print medium, Universities | Tagged Beyond Katrina, Derek Walcott, Emily Dickinson, Emily Dickinson is Dead, Gulfport Mississippi, Jane Langton, Joanne Dobson, Los Angeles Review of Books, Mary Willis Walker, Natasha Trethewey, Quieter than Death, Robert Penn Warren, Zero at the Bone | Leave a comment