Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson

Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title--offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.<br><br>This edition of Emily Dickinson's <i>Selected Poems </i>includes an Index of First Lines as well as an Afterword and Biographical Note by Debra Fried of Cornell University.<br><br>Dressed always in white Emily isolates herself in her room, rarely straying from her Main Street home in Amherst, M.A. What is she doing?<br><br>She's changing the world.<br>She's shattering rules.<br>Smashing rules about poems, and words, and how to use them.<br><br>Challenging rules about woman can say and think. Destroying rules about how we can look at the universe, life, god and the mysteries of the night...<br><br>To hear the truth<br>sometimes you must be alone.<br>To tell your visions,<br>sometimes you must break rules.<br>Emily does.<br>