I saw Josephine read at Smith College and was entranced by her very cool poems, so I bought her book on the spot and had her sign it. I was not dissapointed, great stuff.

The mastery of these poems is only matched by the richness of the collection’s title. The word “fell” means (besides the
past tense of “to fall”) a “stretch of high moorland especially in northern England,” and in that corner of Dickinson’s
world, places carry such names as Black Fell, Fiend’s Fell, Cross Fell, as well as Alston Moor which the fictitious “Silence Fell” represents. But why rename the place you live in when fiction is not your purpose? More than likely because silence
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the ones about others' reactions toward her May-Dec marriage were the best.