A Loaded Gun: The Real Emily Dickinson

An excerpt from A Loaded Gun, by Jerome Charyn, who writes that Emily Dickinson was not just “one more madwoman in the attic,” but rather a messianic modernist, a performance artist, a seductress, and “a woman maddened with rage—against a culture that had no place for a woman with her own fiercely independent mind and will.”

Published: Mar 15, 2016
Length: 25 minutes (6,471 words)
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