A Loaded Gun

PEN/ Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography LonglistO, 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 LandscapeWe 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 liveHe longer must—than I—For I have but the power to kill,Without—the power to die—Through...