<p>The Bard of Amherst, Massachussetts, author of numerous numinous, lapidary poems, Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was the supreme poetic voice of the 19th century. Though she remained virtually unknown and unpublished (by design) during her lifetime, we have come to look backwards and see through her pages of short, intensive ideations and receivings, a picture of active reflection, contemplations on nature, time, and fleeting love; her stuff is comprised of the filaments of spiritual focus, grace, and thunder. Her sister, Lavinia, discovered the manuscripts of her copious, numinous poems, in her desk drawer after her passing. These had been bundled into sewn booklets known as <em>fascicles</em>.</p>
