A passionate and deeply researched reassessment of Emily Dickinsons life and singular legacy in American arts and lettersWe 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 wroteMy Life had stooda Loaded GunThough I than He may longer liveHe longer mustthan IFor I have but the power to kill,Withoutthe power to dieThrough 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.

Binding: Paperback;258 pages; Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press; Classification: BGL; Weight: 420 g; Dimensions: 139 x 208 x 20

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