Open Me Carefully : Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson
(1998)

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Wesleyan University Press, 1998
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1 online resource (360 pages)

ISBN/ISSN
9780819500335 MWT15646490, 081950033X 15646490
LANGUAGE
English
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The 19th-century American poet's uncensored and breathtaking letters, poems, and letter-poems to her sister-in-law and childhood friend. For the first time, selections from Emily Dickinson's thirty-six year correspondence with her childhood friend, neighbor, and sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Dickinson, are compiled in a single volume. Open Me Carefully invites a dramatic new understanding of Emily Dickinson's life and work, overcoming a century of censorship and misinterpretation. For the millions of readers who love Emily Dickinson's poetry, Open Me Carefully brings new light to the meaning of the poet's life and work. Gone is Emily as lonely spinster; here is Dickinson in her own words, passionate and fully alive

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