PEN/ Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Longlist O, The
Oprah Magazine "Best Books of Summer" selection "Magnetic
nonfiction." --O, The Oprah Magazine "Remarkable insight ...[a]
unique meditation/investigation...Jerome Charyn the unpredictable,
elusive, and enigmatic is a natural match for Emily Dickinson, the
quintessence of these." --Joyce Carol Oates, author of Wild Nights!
and The Lost Landscape 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. Jerome Charyn is the author of, most recently,
Bitter Bronx: Thirteen Stories, I Am Abraham: A Novel of Lincoln
and the Civil War, and The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson: A Novel.
He lives in New York.
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