father, Vinnie or brother Austin--understood the "Loaded Gun" of Emily's arrhythmic life and lines: her fierce privacy and the heartbreaking ellipses of her poems. Her father had likened Austin's college compositions to Shakespeare and wanted to have them published, but he didn't have a clue that his minuscule daughter in her velvet snood was one of the great "singers" of the 19th century. In fact, none of the men in her life had the least idea of what her poetry was about.from The Washington Post: Lyndall Gordon's "Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson & Her Family's Feuds"
also The New York Review of Books: Blog: Emily Dickinson in the Bronx
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