Cynthia Graham Hurd/St. Andrews Regional Library Blog: Adult Programming

Thursday, March 27, 2014

Adult Programming

Adult Programming

First Coffee Book Club

Thursday, April 3 at 1 p.m.

The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson by Jerome Charyn.

The inner life of Emily Dickinson was creatively effulgent, psychologically pained and emotionally ambivalent, as reported by Charyn, who here inhabits the mind of one of America's most famous poets. Charyn parrots the cadent voice of razor-sharp Dickinson, beginning in her years as the tempestuous young lyricist who aims to choose my words like a rapier that can scratch deep into the skin. From the first page, witty Emily harbors conflicted feelings toward her female status: her esteemed father, the town's preeminent lawyer, adores Emily at home for her intellectual companionship, but also dismisses her formal education as a waste of money & a waste of time, and it's easy to see how Emily's poetic instincts are born from the shifting sensations of comfort and resentment brought by a childhood spent serenading Father with my tiny Tambourine. Emily's growth is brightly drawn as she progresses from petulant child to a passionate woman with a ferocious will and finally to that notorious recluse. However, while this vivid impersonation is a stylistic achievement, it's also confining and limits higher revelations. (Feb.)
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Online Application Lab

Monday, April 7 at 1 p.m.
Thursday, April 17 at 1 p.m.
Tuesday, April 29 at 1 p.m

Drop in, and receive stress-free help with completing online applications, including unemployment forms for the state’s Department of Employment and Workforce.