I'm not your typical undergraduate. I am a 46-year-old wife and mother with three adult children. Depending on how you count, I may be twice as old as the traditional students or essentially the same age as they are. After all, my life as I know it began 23 years ago, when, in a freakish accident, I was hit in the head by a ceiling fan in our home...
LIVES LIKE LOADED GUNS Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds By Lyndall Gordon Illustrated. 491 pp. Viking. $32.95 The tale that Lyndall Gordon unveils in ''Lives Like Loaded Guns'' is so lurid, so fraught with forbidden passions, that readers may be disappointed to find that no actual gun goes off in this feverish account of the Dickinson family...
KNOCK, knock, knock. That's me, rapping on the front door of a large brick house set high above Main Street in Amherst, Mass. September 1963. I'm 16. A woman in a white uniform -- a nurse? a maid? -- appears. ''Someone important to me once lived here,'' I say. ''I wonder if I could look inside.'' She's puzzled. Speaking softly, as if not to wake a...
Emily Dickinson (10. december 1830 - 15. maj 1886) var en amerikansk digter, der levede hele sit liv i Amherst, Massachusetts.
Kun 10 af Emily Dickinsons digte blev publiceret i hendes levetid, og hun døde ukendt af den læsende offentlighed. Fra 1890 til 1955 blev alle hendes 1775 digte trykt, og de sikrede hende international anerkendelse som en af det engelske sprogs helt store lyrikere. Emily Dickinson skrev korte og meget intense digte; små iagttagelser i naturen gav hende anledning til stærke følelser og metafysiske overvejelser.