Jerome Charyn

A Loaded Gun (eBook, ePUB)

Emily Dickinson for the 21st Century

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

PEN/ Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Longlist
O, 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 Landscape

We 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 live
He longer must-than I-
For I have but the power to kill,
Without-the power to die-

Through interviews with contemporary scholars, close readings of Dickinson's correspondence and handwritten manuscripts, and a suggestive, newly discovered photograph that is purported to show Dickinson with her lover, Charyn's literary sleuthing reveals the great poet in ways that have only been hinted at previously: as a woman who was deeply philosophical, intensely engaged with the world, attracted to members of both sexes, and able to write poetry that disturbs and delights us today.

Jerome Charyn is the author of, most recently, Bitter Bronx: Thirteen Stories, I Am Abraham: A Novel of Lincoln and the Civil War, and The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson: A Novel. He lives in New York.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bellevue Literary Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781934137994
• Artikelnr.: 43810031

Autorenporträt

Jerome Charyn is the author of more than fifty works of fiction and nonfiction, including Maria La Divina; Ravage & Son; Sergeant Salinger; Cesare: A Novel of War-Torn Berlin; In the Shadow of King Saul: Essays on Silence and Song; Jerzy: A Novel; and A Loaded Gun: Emily Dickinson for the 21st Century. Among other honors, his work has been longlisted for the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award and PEN Award for Biography, shortlisted for the Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award, and selected as a finalist for the Firecracker Award and PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Charyn has also been named a Commander of Arts and Letters by the French Minister of Culture and received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Manhattan.

Inhaltsangabe

Author?s Note
Chapter One: ZERO AT THE BONE
Chapter Two: THE TWO EMILYS?AND THE EARL
Chapter Three: DAEMON DOG
Chapter Four: JUDITH SHAKESPEARE & MARGARET MAHER
Chapter Five: BALLERINAS IN A BOX
Chapter Six: PHANTOM LADY
Chapter Seven: WITHIN A MAGIC PRISON
Chapter Eight: NOTHING
Chapter Nine: CLEOPATRA?S COMPANY
Chapter Ten: THE WITCH?S HOUR
Coda
Endnotes
Selected Bibliography
Index
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