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Born October 27, 1940 (age 84) • Stockton • California
Awards And Honors National Medal of Arts (2014) • National Book Award (1981)
Notable Works “China Men” • “Hawai’i One Summer” • “I Love a Broad Margin to My Life” • “The Fifth Book of Peace” • “The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts” • “To Be the Poet” • “Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book”

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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:
Poetry: First Lines
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
Famous Poets and Poetic Form
Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
A Study of Poetry