Susannah B. Mintz is Professor of English at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY. She is the author of Unruly Bodies: Life Writing by Women with Illness and Disability and co-editor of a critical volume on the essayist Nancy Mairs.

• 1. Introduction 2. Our Stories, Our Pain: Autobiographical Utterances 3. The Drama of Pain: Plays and Performance Art 4. The Poetry of Pain: Hurting Made Lyrical 5. The Shape of Pain: On Narration and Plot 6. Bystander Pain: On Witnessing and Touch 7. Conclusion Index

Mintz points to, and develops, the work of Dickinson scholars such as Marianne Noble and Michael Snedicker, reassessing common interpretations of certain poems. Mintz’s extensive, intricate knowledge of Dickinson’s work [in particular] ... offers new critical insight into the poet’s hurt and pain.

Susannah B. Mintz is Professor of English at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY. She is the author of Unruly Bodies: Life Writing by Women with Illness and Disability and co-editor of a critical volume on the essayist Nancy Mairs.

• 1. Introduction 2. Our Stories, Our Pain: Autobiographical Utterances 3. The Drama of Pain: Plays and Performance Art 4. The Poetry of Pain: Hurting Made Lyrical 5. The Shape of Pain: On Narration and Plot 6. Bystander Pain: On Witnessing and Touch 7. Conclusion Index

Mintz points to, and develops, the work of Dickinson scholars such as Marianne Noble and Michael Snedicker, reassessing common interpretations of certain poems. Mintz’s extensive, intricate knowledge of Dickinson’s work [in particular] ... offers new critical insight into the poet’s hurt and pain.

Susannah B. Mintz is Professor of English at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY. She is the author of Unruly Bodies: Life Writing by Women with Illness and Disability and co-editor of a critical volume on the essayist Nancy Mairs.

• 1. Introduction 2. Our Stories, Our Pain: Autobiographical Utterances 3. The Drama of Pain: Plays and Performance Art 4. The Poetry of Pain: Hurting Made Lyrical 5. The Shape of Pain: On Narration and Plot 6. Bystander Pain: On Witnessing and Touch 7. Conclusion Index

Mintz points to, and develops, the work of Dickinson scholars such as Marianne Noble and Michael Snedicker, reassessing common interpretations of certain poems. Mintz’s extensive, intricate knowledge of Dickinson’s work [in particular] ... offers new critical insight into the poet’s hurt and pain.