Poetry. WE HAVE WITH US YOUR SKY is a ransom note from the oppressor, a love note from the collective, and a cryptic indicator of the ability of language to express and destroy the self. The poems speakers are often trapped, abandoned, sardonic, clueless, murderous, obedient, and responsive; the kid speaks, and the grunt, the receptionist, the mother, the man. Exploring the textures of visual, verbal, aural, and chance meaning-making, the poems forge a consciousness intent on connection as much as destruction.

We Have with Us Your Sky

Literature & Fiction

Hubbard, Melanie

Poetry

Subito Press

<p>This book re-assesses Dickinson's manuscripts, style, and statements to arrive at a historically appropriate conception of poetics. It compares her composition practices, such as variant generation and writing on already-marked scraps, with those of her peers in nineteenth-century American popular manuscript culture, tracing them to the pervasive influence of Scottish Common Sense philosophy, Hume's scepticism, and associationism in philosophy of mind and early neuroscience. The argument consults the archives and considers Dickinson's reading, in and out of school, in philosophy, rhetoric, and semiotic theory, as well as her training in inductive science and her familiarity with ideas about electricity, evolution, emotion, sympathy, and the brain. Combining close readings of poems with contextualizing information about contemporary conflicts in intellectual history, the book contends that Dickinson takes the making of poems to be her philosophical praxis. It depicts a Dickinson committed to thinking about the physical constitution of human consciousness and the historicity and materiality of one of its chief modes, language.</p>

Emily Dickinson: Poetics in Context

History & Criticism

Cambridge University Press

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