Transcendental Meditation: Sustainability Studies and Dickinson’s Breath
The Emily Dickinson Journal 2013 Jesse Curran
This essay frames Dickinson as a poet relevant to contemporary ecological thinking and sustainability studies by examining the meditative awareness embedded in her poetic production. In particular, the essay theorizes Dickinson’s “breath poetics,” or the consistent attention she drew to conscious breathing, as a tool to endure suffering that also serves as the metaphorical vitality of her...