To the Editor:
I have a few observations on statements by Melinda T. Koyanis, copyright-and-permissions manager of Harvard University Press (Hot Type, November 17). Koyanis asserts that “authorizing” an anthology such as my Poetic Work of Emily Dickinson, a text “based on one person’s variant typographic interpretation of the poetry, aimed at a general reader, was not in the best interest of preserving or presenting the integrity of the Dickinson work.”
While Koyanis uses my way of characterizing my project -- a typographic interpretation -- she neglects to apply its sense consistently. Harvard’s forthcoming variorum typographic text is also based on “one person’s” (Ralph Franklin’s) construal of the holographs and related material. What’s more, to describe my version of selected poems as a variant typographic interpretation implies that it is somehow a deviation from a standard or authoritative typographic interpretation of Dickinson’s work.
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