{"product_id":"a-loaded-gun-emily-dickinson-for-the-21st-century-9781934137987","title":"A Loaded Gun: Emily Dickinson for the 21st Century","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA passionate and deeply researched reassessment of Emily Dickinson's life and singular legacy in American arts and letters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJerome Charyn\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of more than fifty works of fiction and nonfiction, including \u003ci\u003eMaria La Divina\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eRavage \u0026amp; Son\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eSergeant Salinger\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eCesare: A Novel of War-Torn Berlin\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eIn the Shadow of King Saul: Essays on Silence and Song\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eJerzy: A Novel\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eA Loaded Gun: Emily Dickinson for the 21st Century\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bellevue Literary Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50857111224594,"sku":"9781934137987","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7753c5d0-9193-46a4-9da5-87df5af27a5a.jpg?v=1737521827","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-loaded-gun-emily-dickinson-for-the-21st-century-9781934137987","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}