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Born	March 5, 1948 (age 76) • Albuquerque • New Mexico
Notable Works	“Almanac of the Dead” • “Ceremony” • “Gardens in the Dunes” • “Laguna Woman” • “Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit”

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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

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4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

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