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Title: Reduces Emily's poetry to the level of cheap pulp fiction.
Review: Emily Dickinson wrote POEMS, not autobiography, not history, but POEMS. She is a great American, now globally triumphant, and her writings deserve to be treated with far greater sensitivity, intelligence, and respect than is shown in this book, a book that reduces them to the level of cheap pulp fiction. So please don't waste your money. Buy her poems in a good edition such as those of R. W. Franklin or Thomas H. Johnson and read them. And if you would like to read about her life, read the excellent biography by R. B. Sewall, a scholar who gets his facts straight and who does not indulge in idle, foolish, and sensational speculation. But whatever you do, stay away from the present book. Emily Dickinson has much more to offer the world than the cheap thrill of an imagined romance.
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