Snow Flakes by Susan AngebranndtNo one really knows why Emily Dickinson started to bind clean copies of her poems into little booklets or fascicles in 1858. What is clear is that 1858 was the year she got serious about writing poetry. Perhaps, at the age of 28, she knew marriage and child rearing weren't for her, and she needed an avocation. So she chose poetess. This book, using Dickinson's early poem Snow Flakes, imagines her decision to embark on her poetic journey. Snow Flakes,