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Because of rumors surrounding her quirky spinster life and her first editor’s encouragement of this image in when editing her poems, “Dickinson became stereotyped as an ethereal, eccentric soul, neurotic or worse, the proverbial ‘mad woman in the attic’ - or rather bedroom, where she shrewdly retreated to labor at her art.”

Skimming through this book, skipping the biographical sketches unless the I like poet's selected work(s). Poetry is so hit or miss. So far only one poem has really spoken to me- Muriel Rukeyser's Myth.