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I literally had no idea what she was talking about... Her hand writing is hard to read and I think that some mistakes were made when translating. Many of these poems were also incomplete and I believe she left them unpublished for a reason.There were one or two poems I really liked but other than that this was very confusing... perhaps I was reading them wrong, but I read them in the way I saw most logical and they did not make sense at all.
A little book that is a little boring but so so beautiful and a very quick read. I have never seen a printing like this, with one page being an image of Dickinson’s handwritten scraps of paper and immediately next to it a minimal and more legible rendering of the poem in the same layout as the original envelope. As someone who has been struggling with productivity recently I will say: Realizing how prolific Dickinson was in her life makes me wonder if she would have written 12,000 poems on littl...
A gorgeous little book of small poetry on small things. Highly recommended.
Almost like haiku or the poetry of e.e. cummings; a glimpse of raw genius.
A lovely little book.
what the heck!!!!!!!!!!!! "Look back / on Time / with kindly / Eyes -" whatever you say, Ms. Dickinson!!!!!!!!!!
In the 70s when I first learned of Emily Dickinson in my high school American Lit class, a picture of her emerged that is now being superseded, thanks to archivists, researchers and biographers. For too many years I’ve had an image of Emily as a perennial girl, never a woman, with genius of course but not emotions she showed in real life, only displaying them on the page; an image where she submissively sits behind her cross-barred bedroom window when she is not writing, imprisoned almost, perha...
As there are Apartments in our own Minds that -we never enter without Apology -we should respect the seals of others -I'm glad the editors of this volume didn't heed this particularly aphoristic poem. Dickinson in fragmentary form is cryptic, capturing a quality that many future poets would strive for (i.e., Anne Carson). Also interesting is the incredible glimpse into a master poet's creative process—alternative words, phrases crossed out, poems re-written on facing pages. The facsimiles are cl...
hands down my favourite poet. an icon.
I think I might be not smart enough for EmDick because half the time I’m like hmm what
Emily is ✨the✨ blueprint for sapphic poets 😌
I absolutely loved this. I see reviews that knocked a star off because some poems felt “unfinished” or “confusing” and whilst I agree I also felt as if that’s why I, personally, loved it. As a historian it’s always wonderful to see anything and everything from simple things to simple thoughts, however careless they may seem to us, or unimportant and forgettable to the contemporary maker. I almost felt a bit voyeuristic reading these poems, like I walked into a room and found these scraps on some...
This little book contains fragments of poems and prose written by Emily Dickinson on pieces of envelopes and scraps of old-paper. The poems and the book itself are short. It does feel almost invasive, reading the passing thoughts and ideas of Emily Dickinson she never likely envisioned being published in a book for me to read. This is definitely a book I will pick up from my shelf and flick through on a bored rainy Sunday.It would make an excellent gift for someone who is into, or wants to get i...
As an object, this book is absolutely gorgeous. The cover is beautiful, the pages feel luxurious, the photographs feel so special, and it's all put together with incredible care.The content feels like lucky snooping. Like maybe these were just scrap ideas, things Emily Dickinson didn't care for people to see (some of them are even scratched out), and thoughts she wanted to write but wouldn't fit in anywhere else (on one envelope it simple says "there are those who are shallow intentionally and o...
There is always something incredible to say about Emily Dickson’s poetry. In this novel, the manuscripts collected - or rather her notes - are a look into a different Emily. It’s exciting to see what she jotted down on miscellaneous envelopes. Very different from her original style. Which I really liked. Still very much her signature but somewhat more mature and almost more sure of herself. You get an insight to her wanderings. Loved this book so much!
Twice read, and thrice enjoyed.
Pocket-sized selection from the magisterial complete collection The Gorgeous Nothings. Both books are superb and put virtually all new books of poetry to shame.
this book is so beautiful i just want to display it forever. tiny gems of dickinson quite literally written on envelopes.
“As there are apartment in our own minds that we never enter without apology — we should respect the seals of others.” lovely.
An absolutely stunning way of reading Dickinson's poetry! Every page has a (smaller) facismile copy of the original letters with a reconstruction on the opposite page (very useful, especially at the beginning, since Dickinson's hand writing is very distinct but difficult to read at first). It's very interesting to see how Dickinson wrote these (snippets of) poems, so if you like Dickinson I'd definitely recommend this (but maybe not as the first thing you ever read of her; they are not really 'c...
