Wider Than the Sky: Essays and Meditations on the Healing Power of Emily Dickinson

A revealing perspective on how Emily Dickinson helps readers cope with suffering

Emily Dickinson is known as a poet who presses at the limits of perception and expresses in brilliantly compact, memorable language extremes of both anguish and ecstasy. Her frequent attention to pain and death, like her reclusive tendencies, has led many to dismiss her as “morbid.” Biographers and critics, however, have shown how she used her writing and her own acquaintance with pain to reac…