Envelope Poems

Dickinson, Emily

ISBN 10: 0811225828 / ISBN 13: 9780811225823

Published by New Directions, 2016

Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly! Seller Inventory # DBV.0811225828.G

Synopsis:

Although a very prolific poet and arguably America s greatest Emily Dickinson (1830 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 Dickinson 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 poignancy addressed to no one and everyone at once.

Full-color facsimiles are accompanied by Marta L. Werner and Jen Bervin s pioneering transcriptions of Dickinson 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)."

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Review: "Magnificent: the absolute perfect combination of solid scholarship and art." --Susan Howe

"...Dickinson's incandescent thinking is everywhere on display, and the makeshift nature of the scraps gives us a vivid idea of what composition must have felt like for a woman whose thoughts raced far ahead of her ability to capture them." --The New Yorker

Bibliographic Details

Title: Envelope Poems
Publisher: New Directions
Publication Date: 2016
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: good