Miller is such an exciting reader...Close and thoughtful interpretation is combined with good humor throughout [the book]...[It] is readable and often delightful. Like Dickinson herself, Miller is quietly full of surprise...Cristanne Miller discovers Dickinson 'in words (her own)' (to use Adrienne Rich's phrase); she sees a self-conscious, determined, decisive Emily Dickinson, not someone so stricken with grief or pain or even her own sensitivity that she doesn't quite know what she's doing or what she's writing. Reminding us that Dickinson called her poems her letter to the World, ' Miller views the poems as communicative, not solipsistic, acts. -- Martha Nell Smith "Women's Review of Books"
