“If we read Dickinson’s letters looking for action in the usual sense – where she traveled, what chores she did, whom she encountered – we find some details for reconstructing her days, but not many. But if we read the letters for what the poet thought, her interior world opens.”

“If we read Dickinson’s letters looking for action in the usual sense – where she traveled, what chores she did, whom she encountered – we find some details for reconstructing her days, but not many. But if we read the letters for what the poet thought, her interior world opens.”

— Martha Ackmann