Perhaps the greatest woman poet that ever wrote in the United States, Emily Dickinson wrote poetry that was quite modern. While she uses the ballad form a lot, Dickinson offers a freshness to her verse. Only a couple of her 2,000 poems were ever published during her lifetime. Therefore, we get a rare look at the imaginative mind that is not concerned about deadlines, critics, and a fickle public. Dickinson's audience is an audience of one--herself. Some of the 109 poems in Dover's anthology are "It's all I have to bring to-day," "I taste a liquor never brewed," "I'm nobody! Who are you?" "This is my letter to the world," "I heard a fly buzz when I died," and "Because I could not stop for death."