| Description: |
255 pages : portaits ; 21 cm. |
| 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 Dickinsons correspondence and handwritten manuscripts, and a suggestive, newly discovered photograph that is purported to show Dickinson with her lover, Charyns 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. |
| Bibliog.: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject: |
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886.
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Poets -- Biography.
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Women poets -- Biography.
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Writing.
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| ISBN/ISSN: |
9781934137987 (paperback) |
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1934137987 (paperback) |
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