Emily Dickinson Goes Camping

Karen Davidson's new book begins with twenty poems exploring her affinity with Emily Dickinson. She gently interrogates "the Myth of Amherst" and lifts up the subtle, wry, and serious humour often hidden in Dickinson's poems. This sympathetic touch gives Emily Dickinson Goes Camping an aura of unique interest and poetic surprise. Forty-two additional poems complete the book. In poem after poem, a distillation of language fulfils the promise of the subtitle. "Wildly domestic" is an unusual voice to hold in tension and harmony. But, like Emily Dickinson, Karen Davidson has made it the signature of her art.