I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died
Everyone in the room is braced for the sacred moment. What arrives is a fly. Dickinson’s most devastating poem is about what death looks like when the King doesn’t come.
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Emily Dickinson
The reclusive genius of Amherst who wrote nearly 1,800 poems in near-total privacy — and, decades after her death, became one of the founders of modern American poetry.