By Emily Dickinson
770 pages; Back Bay Books
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She wrote almost 1,800 poems, but few were published in her lifetime. She rarely left her room, much less her father's house; locals regarded her as an eccentric. Yet Dickinson's verse grappled with big issues—love and death and solitude—and her passion is nearly unparalleled.