 | Our Emily Dickinsons: American Women Poets and the Intimacies of Difference Our Emily Dickinsons situates Dickinson's life and work within larger debates about gender, sexuality, and literary authority in America. Examining Dickinson's influence on Marianne Moore, Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Bishop and others, Vivian R. Pollak complicates the connection between authorial biography and poetry that endures. Vivian R. Pollak is Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. She is author of Dickinson: The Anxiety of Gender and The Erotic Whitman. |
