| Title | : | A Loaded Gun |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Jerome Charyn |
| Release | : | 2016-02-22 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Biographies & Memoirs, Books, Fiction & Literature, Literary Criticism |
| Size | : | 2833341 |
| 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 to die— 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. |
