Novel that features sixty-six imagined letters to, from, and about poet Emily Dickinson while she was a student at Mary Lyon's Female Seminary in 1847, revealing the full emotional spectrum of her life.
Draws from letters, journals, and photographs to chronicle the life of American poet May Swenson, providing information about her childhood and adolescence in Utah, and her writing career in New York, and including samples of her work.
A memoir of the author's Mexican-American family in El Paso, Texas, told through the voices of several generations of relatives, both living and dead, with photographs and genealogical charts.