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Enter Emily: Anchoritic anomaly, imprisoned in Amherst -- an insubordinate inhabitant -- immured, immobilized, in anxiety (anorexia?) -- Enacting an intimate, invisible insurrection, Emily envisioned empire, immortality, amorous encounters-- engendered ingenious images-- ennobling, unnerving, enduring images -- images enfolding images -- analogies -- intensities in indian ink invoking entities, energies, infinities in an instant -- America! An Amazon! Animals, insects, amphibians -- emeralds, amethysts, ambers, indigos -- anemones, inlets! -- indigenous angiosperms, inselbergs immolated in amaryllises! -- Intuiting amity in enmity, invigoration in ennui, ennoblement in entropy, Emily ended enduring endogamous antagonism. Indecent interpretations. Inserted injustices. Impaired, incised, analyzed, embargoed. Entombed, inaudible, in anthologies. Ended in infamy. In mis- Understandings. “Miss Emily.” “Poetess.” -- Missing the indefinable defined in the em --