Non-Fiction Book Review - 'The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson'

It was about time I looked into the poems of Emily Dickinson, even though I am not a poetry person.

But maybe I am now, for classic poetry especially, for these selected poems (out of the 1,775 total that Emily wrote), divided into the sections or 'Books' - Life, Love, Nature, and Time and Eternity - are achingly, hauntingly, cerebrally beautiful. And delicate, creative and passionate. Gossamer, yet powerful and hard-hitting. Yes, Emily, they are "alive" and they do in fact "breathe".

There is nothing I can say to describe Emily Dickinson's poetry, her small vignettes, that hasn't been said better by others for over a hundred years.

Emily Dickinson - a recluse isolated in her room in her family home (how I relate!), a misunderstood, creative, sensitive, centred, squirrelly genius, one of the greatest poetesses of all time, and a lesbian icon.

Read her poems, which will take your breath away, and leave you impressed, and in awe of her talent and way of observing the world, unappreciated during her lifetime.

I love the cover of the Wordsworth Poetry Edition I got, as well.

Final Score: 4/5