{"product_id":"9781934137994","title":"A Loaded Gun: Emily Dickinson for the 21st Century","description":"\u003cb\u003ePEN\/ Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Longlist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eO, The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e “Best Books of Summer” selection\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Magnetic nonfiction.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eO, The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Remarkable insight . . . [a] unique meditation\/investigation. . . . Jerome Charyn the unpredictable, elusive, and enigmatic is a natural match for Emily Dickinson, the quintessence of these.” —\u003cb\u003eJoyce Carol Oates\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eWild Nights!\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Lost Landscape\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe think we know Emily Dickinson: the Belle of Amherst, virginal, reclusive, and possibly mad. But in \u003ci\u003eA Loaded Gun\u003c\/i\u003e, Jerome Charyn introduces us to a different Emily Dickinson: the fierce, brilliant, and sexually charged poet who wrote:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy Life had stood—a Loaded Gun—\u003cbr\u003e…\u003cbr\u003eThough I than He— may longer live\u003cbr\u003eHe longer must—than I—\u003cbr\u003eFor I have but the power to kill,\u003cbr\u003eWithout—the power to die—\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJerome Charyn\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of, most recently, \u003ci\u003eBitter Bronx: Thirteen Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eI Am Abraham: A Novel of Lincoln and the Civil War\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Life of Emily Dickinson: A Novel\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in New York.","brand":"Bellevue Literary Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47182862778608,"sku":"9781934137994","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781934137994_p0.jpg?v=1763641250","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781934137994","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}