A selection of authentic versions of the best poems of America's most popular poet-in a beautiful miniature edition.
Considered by many to be the spiritual mother of American poetry,
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) was one of the most prolific and
innovative poets of her era. Well-known for her reclusive personal
life in Amherst, Massachusetts, her distinctively short lines, and
eccentric approach to punctuation and capitalization, she completed
over seventeen hundred poems in her short life. Though fewer than a
dozen of her poems were actually published during her lifetime, she
is still one of the most widely read poets in the English
language.
Brenda Hillman is the author of over ten poetry collections
including Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire, Practical
Water, and Pieces of Air in the Epic. She contributed to
numerous anthologies and edited The Grand Permission: New
Writings on Poetics and Motherhood and The Pocket Emily
Dickinson.
Born in Arizona, Hillman is a graduate of both Pomona College and
the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She has received awards and fellowships
from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim
Foundation, the Poetry Society of America, and more. Her 1993
collection Bright Existence was a finalist for the Pulitzer
Prize.
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