Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson

5 best books like Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson (Emily Dickinson): There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé, After the Apocalypse, Storyteller, Too Much and Not the Mood, The Coquette

There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé

Author	Morgan Parker
ISBN	1941040535

There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé uses political and pop-cultural references as a framework to explore 21st century black American womanhood and its complexities: performance, depression, isolation, exoticism, racism, femininity, and politics. The poems weave between personal...

After the Apocalypse

Author	Maureen F. McHugh
ISBN	1931520291

The apocalypse was yesterday. These stories are today.

Following up on her first collection, Story Prize finalist Maureen F. McHugh explores the catastrophes, small and large, of twenty-first century life—and what follows after. What happens after the bird flu pandemic? Are our computers...

Storyteller

Author

Leslie Marmon Silko

"She was an old woman now, and her life had become memories." She's Ayah, an Indian woman, and her story encapsulates the persecution and suffering of the Native Americans in the hands of the white colonizers.

I had always suspected that great literature often springs out of suffering, whether...

Too Much and Not the Mood

Author	Durga Chew-Bose
ISBN	0374535957

An entirely original portrait of a young writer shutting out the din in order to find her own voice

On April 11, 1931, Virginia Woolf ended her entry in A Writer’s Diary with the words “too much and not the mood.” She was describing how tired she was of correcting her own writing, of the “cramming...

The Coquette

Author	Hannah Webster Foster
ISBN	0195042395

The Coquette tells the much-publicized story of the seduction and death of Elizabeth Whitman, a poet from Hartford, Connecticut.

Written as a series of letters--between the heroine and her friends and lovers--it describes her long, tortuous courtship by two men, neither of whom perfectly...