Her mother was also a poet although her poems were never published.

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Her poems do not rhyme or follow a special kind of pattern.

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We have her poems. And for most readers, they are enough.

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In anger,and sorrow, Missus Sayles threw her poems into a fire.

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Dickinson wrote her poems while cooking with Maher.

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She won a National Book Award in two thousand for her poetry collection "Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems."

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Her "Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir" and her collection "Next: New Poems" were both nominated for Pulitzer Prizes in nineteen eighty-seven.

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Four years after her death, a few more poems were published.

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During her life, she published only about ten poems.

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But dying is a different way, A kind behind the door -- Some historians wish that Emily Dickinson's poems had reached the best American writers of her day: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau or Walt Whitman.

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writer Aife Murray says Dickinson's poems often got their start in her kitchen, where she spent a large portion of each day,baking.

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