Called Back

“Rosa Lane’s Called Back breaks through the membrane that separates us from Dickinson’s time. Here, we enter Dickinson’s world brand new with the vigor of research re-imagined, obsession expressed with prolific inventiveness and mounting urgency, and language that astonishes in its apt, abundant, and irresistible embrace of sound. This is a book fearless in its approach and lavish in its accomplishment.”

• Table of Contents Othered [I speak] 3 For Eve at the Evergreens 4 The Victorian Dissident 6 French Sardines 8 Gentian 10 Foxglove [disambiguation] 12 Dear Sir, (No. 1) 15 Dear Sir, (No. 4) 16 Sparrow’s Sonnet 17 Dear Sir, (No. 7) 18 My Voyage 20 Dear Susan, I am your Antony — Emily D. 21 Marooned 22 My Cleopatra 24 In the bedlam of my chest 25 Kiting April — 26 Poiesis 28II.Arabian Nights, #1 33 Dear Divers, my Fellow Men — 34 Dents de Lion 36 The Daguerreotype [camera obscura] 38 Arabian Nights, #2 40 Susan’s Calls are like Antony’s Supper — 41 Paire de corps 42 Clothesline 43 Feral nights curl 45 My Windows 47 Jasminum 49 Far Reach 50 Arcturus 52III. The Last Fall 57 Today, I go fugitive — 58 Dear Sir, (No. 3) 59 Bedchamber, Last Days 61Bedchamber with Bright’s 62 Limning, Death 63 Transitus, when the blue mist rises 64 Dear Sir, (No. 6) 67 I V.The Loaded Gun (Translation No. 1) 73 The Loaded Gun (Translation No. 2) 76 The Loaded Gun (Translation No. 3) 78Notes 81 Acknowledgments 87