Wider Than the Sky - Essays and Meditations on the Healing Power of Emily Dickinson

Informationen zum Autor Cindy MacKenzie teaches English at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan, Canada. She is best known for her compilation A Concordance to the Letters of Emily Dickinson (2000). She has also published articles on Dickinson in the Emily Dickinson Bulletin and Emily Dickinson Journal. Her passionate interest in Dickinson has taken her to conferences in the United States, Europe, and Japan as an active participant and, presently, as a board member of the Emily Dickinson International Society and of the American Literature Association. Barbara Dana, an actor as well as an author, was born in New York City. She is an award-winning author of novels for children and young adults. Her first play, War in Paramus, had its premiere production in New York City in the fall of 2005. She has appeared often on television and in many films and plays. She is working on a novel based on the young life of Emily Dickinson. Zusammenfassung Emily Dickinson is known as a poet who presses at the limits of perception and expresses in memorable language extremes of both anguish and ecstasy. This work offers revealing perspectives on how the exquisite language in the poems and letters of Emily Dickinson helps readers cope with suffering.

Product details

• Authors: Cindy (EDT)/ Dana Mackenzie
• Assisted by: Barbara Dana (Editor), Cindy MacKenzie (Editor)
• Publisher: Kent State Univ Pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2007
• EAN: 9780873389198
• ISBN: 978-0-87338-919-8
• No. of pages: 150
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Literature & Medicine; Literature and Medicine Series; Literature and Medicine
• Subjects: Guides > Spirituality > Esoterics; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies