She fears that if she mentions it, she will get in trouble under the Parental Rights in Education bill (known as the “ don’t say gay” law) backed by Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis.Īs the summer holidays approach, Florida teachers are feeling anxious, confused and beaten down by new laws, championed by DeSantis, that limit how issues of race can be taught, what teachers can say about sex, especially about homosexuality, and what books are permitted in schools. "With its chronological arrangement of the poems, this volume becomes more than just a collection it is at the same time a poetic biography of the thoughts and feelings of a woman whose beauty was deep and lasting.Carol Cleaver, a middle-school science teacher in Pensacola, says that when LGBTQ+ students who are feeling hopeless or depressed approach her to discuss their emotional troubles, she, different from before, often balks at telling them about a crisis support hotline for young LGBTQ+ people. This book, a distillation of the three-volume Complete Poems, brings together the original texts of all 1,775 poems that Emily Dickinson wrote. Johnson, were readers able for the first time to assess, understand, and appreciate the whole of Dickinson's extraordinary poetic genius. Not until the 1955 publication of The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, a three-volume critical edition compiled by Thomas H. Early posthumous published collections - some of them featuring liberally "edited" versions of the poems - did not fully and accurately represent Dickinson's bold experiments in prosody, her tragic vision, and the range of her intellectual and emotional explorations.
Only eleven of Emily Dickinson's poems were published prior to her death in 1886 the startling originality of her work doomed it to obscurity in her lifetime.
This comprehensive and authoritative collection of all 1,775 poems by Emily Dickinson is an essential volume for all lovers of American literature.
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