Description
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.
This book is a rare gift for all poetry lovers.–Craig Morgan Teicher
Visual poets around the world will soon be mining these endlessly suggestive fragments.–Marjorie Perloff
This book is a testament to the lasting power of Dickinson’s work and a new insight into the way her work arose. It’s suitably gorgeous production and lyrical accompanying essays make it a treat for the eye and the mind.
The Gorgeous Nothingsclaims our attention with a new Emily Dickinson. This edition itself is a work of art.–Susan Howe
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 includesThe Dickinson Composites,The Desert, andNets.
Marta Werner‘s books includeEmily Dickinson’s Open Folios: Scenes of Reading, Surfaces of WritingandRadical Scatters: An Electronic Archive of Emily Dickinson’s Late Fragments and Related Texts.
Susan Howe has won the Bollingen Prize, the Frost Medal, and the Griffin Award.
New Directions Publishing Corp
Pub Date:October 29, 2013
1.22″ H x 12.09″ L x 9.62″ W
272 pages
hardcover
