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A loaded gun : Emily Dickinson for the 21st century / Jerome Charyn.

By: Charyn, Jerome [author.]Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Bellevue Literary Press, 2016Edition: First editionDescription: 255 pages : portaits ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781934137987; 1934137987Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 | Poets -- Biography | Women poets -- Biography | WritingDDC classification: 809 LOC classification: PS1541.Z5 | C497 2016

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.

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

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Item type	Current location	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	Downtown Branch Adult biographies	Adult biographies	B DIC CHA (Browse shelf)	Available		31562015852785
Book	Madison Branch Adult biographies	Adult biographies	B DIC CHA (Browse shelf)	Available		31562015907464

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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

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