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My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun

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Electrifying poems of isolation, beauty, death and eternity from a reclusive genius and one of America's greatest writers. 
 
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Emily Dickinson (1830-1866) lived all her life in Amherst, Massachusetts.  A handful of her poems came out in her lifetime, with most only published in the 1890s.

My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun

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