The Poems of Emily Dickinson Reading EditionEmily Dickinson, poet of the interior life, imagined words swords, hurling barbed syllables piercing. Nothing about her adult appearance or habitation revealed such a militant soul. Only poems, written quietly in a room of her own, often hand stitched in small volumes, then hidden in a drawer, revealed her true self. She did not live in time but in universalsan acute, sensitive nature reaching out boldly from self referral to a wider, imagined world.