My daughter wanted a book of poetry by Emily Dickinson for Christmas.
Emily Dickenson is one of my favorits. I cannot say how many times I have read her stuff.
Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, MASS, and lived in the mid to late 1800's
She was quite a woman, and I look up to her in my life for being who she was.
She was a hermit who lived by herself and wrote poetry.  The best art comes from pain, apparently.
I can see where that may be true. She battled through and eventually her works make a mark on the world
and was known for her reluctance to greet guests or, later in life, to even leave her bedroom. Dickinson never married, and most friendships between her and others depended entirely upon correspondence.
While Dickinson was a prolific poet, fewer than a dozen of her nearly 1,800 poems were published during her lifetime. The poems published then were usually edited significantly to fit conventional poetic rules. Her poems were unique to her era. They contain short lines, typically lack titles, and often use slant rhyme as well as unconventional
Sendak described Mickey as a source of joy and pleasure while growing up. He has been quoted as saying, "My gods are Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, Mozart. I believe in them with all my heart." Elaborating further, he has explained that reading Emily Dickinson's works helps him to remain calm in an otherwise hectic world: "And I have a little tiny Emily Dickinson so big that I carry in my pocket everywhere. And you just read three poems of Emily. She is so brave. She