Envelope Poems

Envelope Poems

Another gorgeous copublication with the Christine Burgin Gallery, Emily Dickinson'sÂ Envelope PoemsÂ is a compact clothbound gift book, a full-color selection from The Gorgeous Nothings.Â
Although a very prolific poetâ€•and arguably Americaâ€™s greatestâ€•Emily Dickinson (1830â€“1886) published fewer than a dozen of her eighteen hundred poems. Instead, she created at home small handmade books. When, in her later years, she stopped producing these, she was still writing a great deal, and at her death she left behind many poems, drafts, and letters. It is among the makeshift and fragile manuscripts of Dickinsonâ€™s later writings that we find the envelope poems gathered here. These manuscripts on envelopes (recycled by the poet with marked New England thrift) were written with the full powers of her late, most radical period. Intensely alive, these envelope poems are charged with a special poignancyâ€•addressed to no one and everyone at once.

Full-color facsimiles are accompanied by Marta L. Werner and Jen Bervinâ€™s pioneering transcriptions of Dickinsonâ€™s handwriting. Their transcriptions allow us to read the texts, while the facsimiles let us see exactly what Dickinson wrote (the variant words, crossings-out, dashes, directional fields, spaces, columns, and overlapping planes).
Country USA
Brand New Directions
Manufacturer New Directions
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber Illustrated
ReleaseDate 2016-10-04
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780811225823

Country	USA
Brand	New Directions
Manufacturer	New Directions
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	Illustrated
ReleaseDate	2016-10-04
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780811225823

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