Emily Dickinson, A User’s Guide presents a comprehensive introduction to the life and works of Emily Dickinson, Offers a richly appreciative biographical and critical introduction to America’s most widely admired woman poet

Written by a world-renowned Emily Dickinson scholar and American literary critic
Represents the only book that reads Dickinson through her manuscripts, the print editions of her work, and the major digital Dickinson editions published since 1994
The User’s Guide is a new kind of book for a new era of reading
Is the only book that is an introduction to the poet, her work, and her receptions among readers
Is the only book that presents new biography and textual discoveries that have just come to light in 2011
  Interprets Dickinson through the dynamic interchange between the reader’s sense of her life and her work
Draws on prominent critical views from the past century, including sentimental, modernist, new critical, psychological, feminist, queer, and postmodernist readings