It pains me to say it, but I used to hate Emily Dickinson. Her voice once struck me as cutesy and coy: "I'm Nobody! who are you?/Are you nobody too?" Her meek posture reflected what the Victorian age demanded of women, and I couldn't get past it. (Plus, you can sing most of her opening lines to t... -
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It pains me to say it, but I used to hate Emily Dickinson. Her voice once struck me as cutesy and coy: "I'm Nobody! who are you?/Are you nobody too?" Her meek posture reflected what the Victorian age demanded of women, and I couldn't get past it. (Plus, you can sing most of her opening lines to t...-
By Mary Karr