Jerome Charyn: A Loaded Gun (USA 2016)

From the Publisher:
We think we know Emily Dickinson: the Belle of Amherst, virginal, reclusive, and possibly mad. But in A Loaded Gun, Jerome Charyn introduces us to a different Emily Dickinson: the fierce, brilliant, and sexually charged poet who wrote:

My Life had stood -- a Loaded Gun --
...
Though I than He -- may longer live
He longer must -- than I --
For I have but the power to kill,
Without -- the power to die --

Through interviews with contemporary scholars, close readings of Dickinson's correspondence and handwritten manuscripts, and a suggestive, newly discovered photograph that is purported to show Dickinson with her lover, Charyn's literary sleuthing reveals the great poet in ways that have only been hinted at previously: as a woman who was deeply philosophical, intensely engaged with the world, attracted to members of both sexes, and able to write poetry that disturbs and delights us today.

Jerome Charyn: A Loaded Gun. Emily Dickinson for the 21st Century. Bellevue Literary Press, ISBN: 9781934137987 (March, 2016), 255 p., $19.95, eBook $.19.99.