Emily Dickinson's Lexicon - Lehman, Katie
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In this debut collection, Katie Lehman pays tribute to Emily Dickinson, with homage to the nineteenth-century American poet's lexicon of fierce vulnerability. Some poems quote Dickinson verbatim. Others channel Dickinson's radiant spirit in lyric narratives that reflect Lehman's own journey through a life lived close to the earth. We learn about Benedictine nuns tending the Victorian walled garden and farm at Kylemore Abbey on the west coast of Ireland, a newborn calf on a Mennonite dairy farm in Northern Indiana, the poet's coming-of-age among horses in Ohio, and school picture day during the…mehr

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In this debut collection, Katie Lehman pays tribute to Emily Dickinson, with homage to the nineteenth-century American poet's lexicon of fierce vulnerability. Some poems quote Dickinson verbatim. Others channel Dickinson's radiant spirit in lyric narratives that reflect Lehman's own journey through a life lived close to the earth. We learn about Benedictine nuns tending the Victorian walled garden and farm at Kylemore Abbey on the west coast of Ireland, a newborn calf on a Mennonite dairy farm in Northern Indiana, the poet's coming-of-age among horses in Ohio, and school picture day during the Covid pandemic with her young son. Like Dickinson's, Lehman's poems pose a precise questioning of suffering and death through an inherent lens of light and hope. In the end, Lehman creates an emotional lexicon of her own that urges us not merely to enter but to bask in the sheer exuberance of language and find transport. SAMPLE: Monarch Cyclical and sparse, her eyelid-thin wings approach and disapproach among the grasses. Unassuming, she only covets what she knows: a single worn reed of herself, dark covert, uncoaxable as the worm she once was. Before the white-spotted wings, before the stained-glass veins. Idling brown earth at close measure. Closer at length, but she knows closeness is not her answer. If it is a loveliness she feels or a kind of loneliness, only the husbandry of tears will make her radiance known. How her cautious love perplexes the moth who darts unblinkingly into the porch light. Filamental, she is compatible to late dusk or perceivable grief. Admonish, and she's gone-yet I conspire she longs for earth's untiring clasp, longs even, all preconceptions removed-to lay her orange and black chivalry down.
Autorenporträt
Katie Lehman received an MFA from the University of Notre Dame in 1999. While at Notre Dame, she was the recipient of the 1998 Billy Maich Academy of American Poets Prize, an award given to a Notre Dame student, graduate or undergraduate, for excellence in poetry. From 2004 to 2010, Lehman was assistant editor at the University of Notre Dame Press and for many years has served as a personal editor for her former teacher, the American poet, translator, and David Jones scholar John Matthias. She is the editor of Matthias's Regrounding a Pilgrimage, a collaboration with John Peck and Robert Archambeau (Dos Madres, 2018).