By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

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Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image ...

Gloria Ann Diggs was born Aug. 7, 1941, to John Henry and Lois Diggs (both deceased) in Paris, Tenn., during a time of great strife for the world. Mama Lois ...