Envelope Poems

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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 h ome 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. Format: Hardcover Published: USA, 2016 Publisher: New Directions Pages: 95 Language: English ISBN 13: 9780811225823 ISBN 10: 9780811225823 Show more