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# The Gorgeous Nothings: Emily Dickinson's Envelope Poems

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    better than I expected
  

*by E***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 14, 2023*

This book is AMAZING!  The intro and other written portions show a deep understanding of Dickinson's life, etc. etc.  What I'm most thrilled with, though, are the facsimiles of the poems!  I thought there would be a few facsimiles and the rest transcription, but ALL are facsimiles with a transcription on the opposite page.  It's WONDERFUL!  I'm going to savor this volume.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    What Can I say? J'adore!
  

*by E***E on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 25, 2014*

These 52 pieces were found, unbound, among Dickinson's papers, written on envelopes that had been used or addressed and unsent. They are as much works of visual as textual art, offering the chance to read into Dickinson's slanting handwriting. Her bubbly loops and long strokes suggest, to me at least, the odd confidence of one who knows the peculiar joy of refining and performing her own identity on a private stage, a bit like the names of boys or bands on the backs of middle-school notebooks.And, if we agree with editor Marta Werner, Dickinson was playing not only with the arrangement of words in poetic lines, but the arrangement of different groups of words on different parts of these envelopes. On a folded-over lip of one envelope, she describes a "Drunken man" (who may also be dead, or almost dead), "Oblivion bending / over him," and, written slanted over the curled edge, "enfolding him / with tender / infamy." It's the medium making the metaphor here, something usually reserved for sculpture. This is poetry in 3-D.These are late writings, probably composed after she'd sewn up the last of her famous "fascicles," the bound packets in which her poems were found after her death. So these are experiments, perhaps, begun after she'd set the bulk of her legacy in store for "immortality," one of her favorite words. Due, perhaps, to the limits these unusually shaped pages exerted on her writing, the best of these poems are among her most compressed and aphoristic. "A Pang," she writes, "is more / Conspicuous in Spring / In contrast with the / things that sing," blending colloquial and biblical speech in the kinds of enigmatic leaps that make her poems rush with wind.The Gorgeous Nothings is an art book as much as a poetry book, featuring full-color facsimiles of 52 of Emily Dickinson's envelope poems.iThe Gorgeous Nothings is an art book as much as a poetry book, featuring full-color facsimiles of 52 of Emily Dickinson's envelope poems.Jen Bervin/Courtesy of New DirectionsThe editors offer endless avenues of interpretation; the typed transcriptions of Dickinson's handwriting are superimposed atop the outlines of their corresponding envelopes, so the multidirectional layout of the text isn't lost. A series of esoteric indexes — by shape of the envelopes, by what direction they are turned, by whether or not they have "penciled divisions," for example — encourage the reader to speculate about the various relationships Dickinson may have conceived between paper and words.It's a good season to chase after the ever-elusive Emily Dickinson. In addition to this book, there's a corresponding exhibit in Chicago; there's also a separate show in New York City, and all of the poet's online archives were recently organized into one accessible hub. This book is a rare gift for all poetry lovers. We are lucky to have more of Dickinson's ongoing "letter to the World / That never wrote to Me," an endlessly fascinating correspondence, addressed to any of us who find it — so long as we're willing to answer it with concentration and curiosity.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Gorgeous everythings .
  

*by L***D on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 19, 2022*

This book is something so special and rare that I know I’ll treasure it  forever . The juxtaposition of image and word , the envelope as an object combined with Dickinson’s poems  form  these exquisite gems . Truly an inspiration .

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