The Emily Dickinson Reader: An English-To-English Translation of Emily Dickinson's Complete Poems

By Paul Legault

Perfect for the poetry fan who is short on time, The Emily Dickinson Reader offers Paul Legault's ingenious and madcap one-line renderings of each of Dickinson's 1,789 poems. Take that familiar chestnut, #314, a la Legault: ?Hope is kind of like birds. In that I don't have any." Or the classic hymn, #615: ?God likes to watch."

As Dickinson herself said in #769 (basically, via our translator): ?This dead person used to be a person!"?and The Emily Dickinson Reader is here to tell you what that person meant.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1936365987
• ISBN13: 9781936365982
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: McSweeney's
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 7.1"