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A Loaded Gun: Emily Dickinson for the 21st Century

By Jerome Charyn
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By Jerome Charyn
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A passionate and deeply researched reassessment of Emily Dickinson’s life and singular legacy in American arts and letters

We think we know Emily Dickinson: the Belle of Amherst, virginal, reclusive, and possibly mad. But in A Loaded Gun, Jerome Charyn introduces us to a different Emily Dickinson: the fierce, brilliant, and sexually charged poet who wrote:

My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun—
…
Though I than He— may longer live
He longer must—than I—
For I have but the power to kill,
Without—the power ...

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BiographyLiterary BiographyWomen's BiographyAmerican Literary BiographyLiterary Figures - Women's BiographyAmerican Poets - Literary BiographyAmerican Women - Literary BiographyDickinson, Emily (1830-1886)->Biography