false 7075826 2 Brenda Wineapple tells an extraordinary story about poetry, politics, and love, and sheds new light not only on the famously elusive poet, but on the roiling America of the nineteenth century. <br><br>As the Civil War raged in 1862, an unusual relationship was born between the reclusive poet Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a literary figure and abolitionist who ran guns to Kansas and commanded the first Union regiment of black soldiers. Higginson wrote for <i>The Atlantic Monthly</i>, and when Dickinson sent him four of her poems he realized he had encountered a wholly original genius. The intense correspondence that followed over the next quarter century reveals much about Dickinson, Higginson, and the world they shared.<br><br><br><i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i> 6860477 12 8 2008 White Heat 0 0 0 0 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6665608