Poet Emily Dickinson was born 175 years ago this month in Amherst, Massachusetts. ''G'' -- for girl -- was the scant description that the town doctor noted in his record book. "Writing in the preface to Dickinson's first edition of poems published four years after her death, Thomas Wentworth Higginson noted the primeval power of the work. ''These verses will seem to the reader like poetry torn up by the roots, with rain and dew and earth still clinging to them.'" miamiherald.com (Tue, Dec. 13, 2005)
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