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Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 20:31:39 -0500 (EST)
From: LouisFors@aol.com
To: DICKNSON@LISTSERV.UTA.EDU
Subject: Introduction

This is my first post to the discussion group, so herewith a little bio:

Louis Forsdale
Professor Emeritus of Communication and Education
Teachers College, Columbia U. NYC

After 40 years of service at Columbia I retired 10 years ago to Santa Fe, NM,
where I've been able to pursue some interests other than those that absorbed
me, deeply and with fun, in my teaching.  Among those interests is Emily
Dickinson.

I've just read a post by Ernest Moyer, part of which echoes my story with ED.
I was introduced to her 60 years ago in high school, where I thought she was a
"nice" poet.  But for fifty years I've read her, getting into some of the
biographies and criticism.  As Ernest notes, it takes maturity to appreciate
her fully.  Now I think of her as a daring genius, to offer a variation of the
title of a brief essay about Dickinson written late last year--"Reckless
Genius"--by the poet, Galway Kinnell,
for the online magazine Salon.  The essay, which is well worth a look is at:

          www.salonmagazine.com/feature/1997/11/cov_o3kinnell.html

I have some thoughts for Ernest, which I'll send along when I'm not surrounded
by
eager grandkids.  And I look forward to exchanging views with everybody.  I'm
certainly not a Dickinson scholar, but, if passion qualifies for being in this
group, I'll fit.

Louis Forsdale