Faith Barrett, a candidate for the Ph.D in Comparative Literature, is writing a dissertation entitled Letters to the World: Emily Dickinson and the Lyric Address. The project takes up Dickinson’s insistent exploration of the rhetoric of address and examines the ways in which significant theological and ethical questions inform this inquiry. Comparing Dickinson’s work with other poets from the American and French lyric traditions—Edward Taylor, Whitman, Baudelaire and Mallarmé— Barrett considers the ways in which the poet can encounter the “unattainable other” face to face in the moment of lyric address.