Envelope Poems

Dickinson, Emily

ISBN 10: 0811225828 / ISBN 13: 9780811225823

Verlag: New Directions, 2016

Hardcover Book. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 4CJH0200BCZ9

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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).

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren: Arguably America's greatest poet, Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) published fewer than a dozen of her eighteen hundred poems during her lifetime.

Jen Bervin's work includes The Dickinson Composites, The Desert, and Nets.

Marta Werner's books include Emily Dickinson's Open Folios: Scenes of Reading, Surfaces of Writing and Radical Scatters: An Electronic Archive of Emily Dickinson's Late Fragments and Related Texts.

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Titel: Envelope Poems
Verlag: New Directions
Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: good