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A loaded gun : Emily Dickinson for the 21st century / Jerome Charyn.
Van Pelt Library PS1541.Z5 C497 2016
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Charyn, Jerome, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886.
- Dickinson, Emily.
- Poets--Biography.
- Poets.
- Women poets.
- Women poets--Biography.
- Writing.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 255 pages : portaits ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bellevue Literary Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- "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. Through interviews with contemporary scholars, close readings of Dickinson's correspondence and handwritten manuscripts, and a suggestive, newly discovered photograph that is purported to show Dickinson with her lover, Charyn's literary sleuthing reveals the great poet in ways that have only been hinted at previously: as a woman who was deeply philosophical, intensely engaged with the world, attracted to members of both sexes, and able to write poetry that disturbs and delights us today." -- Publisher's description
- Contents:
- Zero at the Bone
- The Two Emily's
- and the Earl
- Daemon Dog
- Judith Shakespeare and Margaret Maher
- Ballerinas in a Box
- Phantom Lady
- Within a Magic Prison
- Nothing
- Cleopatra's Company
- The Witch's Hour.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781934137987
- 1934137987
- OCLC:
- 936359160
- Publisher Number:
- 99967377619
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