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Originally Published: June 21, 2010Was Emily Dickinson epileptic?
James Longenbach reviews Lives Like Loaded Guns, Lyndall Gordon's account of Emily Dickininson's family's feuds and the poet's possible epilepsy, in The Nation:
The great virtue of Gordon's biography is that it makes Dickinson the person—sister, friend, seducer, adversary—seem as scary as her poems