The Gorgeous Nothings: Emily Dickinson's Envelope Poems - Rilegato

Dickinson, Emily

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ISBN 10: 081122175X ISBN 13: 9780811221757

Casa editrice: New Directions, 2013

Riassunto

The Gorgeous Nothings — the first full-color facsimile edition of Emily Dickinson’s manuscripts ever to appear — is a deluxe edition of her late writings, presenting this crucially important, experimental late work exactly as she wrote it on scraps of envelopes. A never-before-possible glimpse into the process of one of our most important poets.The book presents all the envelope writings — 52 — reproduced life-size in full color both front and back, with an accompanying transcription to aid in the reading, allowing us to enjoy this little-known but important body of Dickinson’s writing. Envisioned by the artist Jen Bervin and made possible by the extensive research of the Dickinson scholar Marta L. Werner, this book offers a new understanding and appreciation of the genius of Emily Dickinson.

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Recensione:

"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." --The New York Times

"The Gorgeous Nothings claims our attention with a new Emily Dickinson. This edition itself is a work of art." --Susan Howe

"This exquisitely produced book [The Gorgeous Nothings] lovingly curated by Bervin and Werner allows you to encounter Emily Dickinson's 'envelope poems' in full-color facsimile for the first time. It's an experience suspended between reading and looking, of toggling between those two modes of perception, and it thoroughly refreshes both." --The New Yorker

L'autore:

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. Acclaimed poet Susan Howe, winner of the last Bollingen Prize, is the author of the seminal work, My Emily Dickinson.

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• Editore: New Directions
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 081122175X
• ISBN 13: 9780811221757
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 255