Envelope Poems - Hardcover

Dickinson, Emily

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ISBN 10: 0811225828 ISBN 13: 9780811225823

Verlag: New Directions, 2016

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

Visual poets around the world will soon be mining these endlessly suggestive fragments.--Marjorie Perloff

Here is a book almost as rare as its author, Emily Dickinson (1830-1886).--Larry Smith

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.--Dan Chiasson

The first and immediate shocks are in the words, with other, lingering, aftershocks following in the visual details of their settings. The great thing about [The Gorgeous Nothings] is, of course, that it gives us all of this, complete.--Holland Cotter

[The Gorgeous Nothings] opens up an aspect of her craft that suggests she was, in the so-called late ecstatic period of her career, experimenting with creating texts in relation to the visual, spatial, and technological possibilities of her medium--composing in response to the confines of her writing world rather than despite it.--Jessica Michalofsky

The Gorgeous Nothings is proof that one of our most important poets can still amaze and teach us new thing about the practice of poetry.--Hannah Star Rogers

The Gorgeous Nothings is one of the most ambitious, important literary feats of the year. It's stunning, revelatory, and it functions as a key text to Dickinson's oeuvre: seeing it demands a tectonic shift in the way we read her, brings her back to us even more extremely idiosyncratic than we could have guessed.

The Gorgeous Nothings is a rare gift for all poetry lovers.--Craig Morgan Teicher

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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).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: New Directions
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0811225828
• ISBN 13: 9780811225823
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 1