Purchase these titles at Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, or through your preferred bookseller.

Great American Poems ~ REPOEMED
Volumes 1 and 2

Each volume contains biographical information on Emmett Lee Dickinson, Emily Dickinson's third cousin, twice removed (at her request), along with poetry of Emmett Lee Dickinson, Emily Dickinson, E. E. Cummings, and Robert Frost (rewritten for the 21st century).

A GREAT GIFT FOR TEACHERS, ENGLISH MAJORS, POETRY LOVERS, LOVERS OF PARODY & HUMOR

If you're shopping for someone who (a) loves poetry and (b) has a sense of humor, then you can't go wrong with Great American Poems ~ REPOEMED as a gift!

Should you buy Great American Poems ~ REPOEMED for someone as a gift?

1. Are they a fan of the poetry of Emily Dickinson, E. E. Cummings, and Robert Frost?
2. Do they have a sense of humor?
3. Are they witty?  Intelligent?
4. Are they good looking?

If you answered "yes" to one or more of the questions above, then it's  not a matter of "if" you should purchase copies of Great American Poems ~  REPOEMED gifts,  it is "how  many."


FOR INFORMATION ON THE AUTHOR, JIM  ASHER, CLICK HERE.

You can't argue with the fact that we've made online ordering easy with the color-coded system below!

Available  at AuthorHouse.com

Volume 1:

Softcover:   
Hardcover: 
E-Book

Click HERE
Click HERE
Click HERE

Available at
Barnes & Noble

Volume 1:

Softcover:
Hardcover:
Nook Book:

Click HERE
Click HERE
Click HERE

Available at
Amazon.com

Volume 1:

Softcover:
Hardcover:
Kindle Edition:

Click HERE
Click HERE
Click HERE

Or order copies through your preferred bookseller!

Volume 2:

Softcover:
Hardcover:
E-Book:

Click HERE
Click HERE
Click HERE

Volume 2:

Softcover:
Hardcover:
Nook Book:

Click HERE
Click HERE
Click HERE

Voume 2:

Softcover:
Hardcover:
Kindle Edition:

Click HERE
Click HERE
Click HERE

Want an autographed copy to give as a gift?  Use the handy-dandy "contact us" page!

OTHER GIFT IDEAS

Steal Like An Artist by Austin Kleon

Not long ago I  read Austin Kleon's blog post "Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative"  – which he later expanded to the book pictured at the right – and his advice is what prompted me to research Emmett Lee Dickinson (Emily Dickinson's third cousin, twice removed – at her request), and publish my books (volumes 1 and 2 of Great American Poems ~ REPOEMED).
Pick up a copy for yourself (or as a gift for another), and see where it takes you!

The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson by Jerome Charyn

If you are a fan of  the poetry of Emily Dickinson, then I recommend The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson, a work by Jerome Charyn that mingles fact and fiction about Dickinson's life from his research of the her letters and poetry.  Charyn's work gives a vivid and audacious characterization of the poet who brought us "Nature, the gentlest mother" as well as "Wild nights! Wild nights! Were I with thee!" 

Lives Like Loaded Guns by Lyndall Gordon

If your image of Emily Dickinson is that of a reclusive, unassuming woman in white hiding her poems in chest drawers and boxes under her bed in a charming home in the quaint town in Massachusettes, then pick up a copy of Lyndall Gordon's Lives Like Loaded Guns.  After you read Gordon's account, you'll be more apt to think that Dickinson's life and posthomous family events were more like a 19th century reality show dubbed  "The Real Housewives of Amherst."

The Emily Dickinson Reader by Paul Legault

Short on time?  Can't seem to find the time to read all of Emily Dickinson's poems?  Then you have two choices:

1) You can read the 1,775 poems in Thomas H. Johnson's The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson instead of the 1,789 poems in R. W. Franklin's The Poems of Emily Dickinson. 

~ OR ~

2) You can read Paul Legault's The Emily Dickinson Reader, where each of her poems is reduced to a pithy quip or two.

Emily Dickinson Letters edited by Emily Fragos

Interested in the life of Emily Dickinson?  Then read about the poet in her own words in thiis pocket-size volume of some of Dickinson's letters  – the only prose she ever wrote.

Spoiler alert:  On page 13 you'll learn why Dickinson is known as "the belle of Amherst"!

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson and
The Poems of Emily Dickinson

During a recent visit to Chicago, I spent some time in the poetry library at the Poetry Foundation.  While there, I purused a book of Dickinson poetry, and I came across a poem of hers with which I was not familar, so I jotted down the number and first line:  1244,  "Fly – fly –but as you fly."  However, when I got home, I looked up poem 1244 in The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson edited by Thomas H. Johnson, and the first line read, "The Butterfly's Assumption Gown" – and "Fly – fly – but as you fly" was nowhere to be found in my book's index. 

Long story short:  Johnson's volume was the definitive text of Dickinson poetry as of its publication in the 1950s; however, R. W. Franklin re-examined all of Johnson's research and all of  the existing works of Dickinson, and he published The Poems of Emily Dickinson in 1998.  As a result, Franklin's work is the more complete volume of the two "complete" volumes of Dickinson's work.

F1244

Fly – fly – but as you fly –
Remember - the second pass you by –
The Second is pursuing the Century
The Century is chasing Eternity –
What a Responsibility – 
No wonder that the little Second flee –
Out of its frightened way –

E. E. Cummgins Complete Poems 1904 - 1962
edited by George J. Firmage

If you're a fan of E. E. Cummings, then you certainly need George Firmage's hefty volume of all of Cummings' poems!

---

All things Emmett Lee Dickinson (poetry, museum stuff, Washerst facts and figures, etc.) © 2013 & 2014 by Jim Asher