Ajuan Maria Mance - Of Women, Poetry, and Power: Strategies of Address in Dickinson, Miles, Brooks, Lorede, and Angelou (review) - Callaloo 27:2 Callaloo 27.2 (2004) 575-579 Burr, Zofia. Of Women, Poetry, and Power: Strategies of Address in Dickinson, Miles, Brooks, Lorede, and Angelou. Champaign-Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. Zophia Burr's Of Women, Poetry, and Power explores the critical reception of Emily Dickinson's work, not only for what it can tell us about the poet's rise to prominence as "the exemplary image of the true poet," but also as a basis for understanding the impact of Dickinson's canonization on the women writers who have followed in her wake (22). Burr's greatest strength lies in her agile synthesis of historical inquiry with the literary and theoretical analysis. She combines all three of these elements in her opening chapter, "The Canonization of Emily Dickinson," an exploration of the events, circumstances, and scholarly trends that built and have maintained the poet's status as a literary historical construction. Burr unpacks the intriguing, often self-serving politics of authenticity that preceded the publication of some of the major editions of Dickinson's oeuvre, explaining that "since the first publication of Dickinson's writings in book form, each successive generation of critics has taken the editions produced by the previous generation as a sign of the limits of its predecessors' capacity to recognize and...