My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun by Emily Dickinson 'It's coming - the postponeless Creature'. This title highlights energizing sonnets of separation, magnificence, passing, and eternity from a hermitic genius and one of America's most prominent writers. It is one of 46 new books in the top-rated Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first-ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives perusers a taste of the Classics' colossal range and diversity, with works from around the world and over the centuries - counting tales, debauchery, catastrophe, tall tales, parody, apparitions, fights, and elephants.