The Emily Dickinson Collection (2021) compiles some of the
best-known works of an icon of American poetry. Out of nearly
two-thousand poems discovered after her death, less than a dozen
appeared in print during Dickinson's lifetime. Drawn from such
influential posthumous volumes as Poems (1902) and The Single Hound
(1914), The Emily Dickinson Collection captures the spiritual
depths, celebratory heights, and impenetrable mystery of
Dickinson's poetic gift. "Fame is a fickle food / Upon a shifting
plate, / Whose table once a Guest, but not / The second time, is
set." Deeply aware of the fleeting nature of fame, Dickinson-whose
reputation in life was as a lonely eccentric who rarely, if ever,
left home-seems to provide some clarity as to why publication so
often eluded her. Having published just ten poems in her lifetime,
Dickinson continued to write in solitude until her final years. Her
final word on fame is a warning, perhaps, for poets whose fate
would differ from her own: "Men eat of it and die." Despite her
admonishing tone, she found space elsewhere to muse on the nature
of literary achievement, recognizing that obscurity could
incidentally produce the conditions for a poet to produce their
most vital work: "Success is counted sweetest / By those who ne'er
succeed. / To comprehend a nectar / Requires sorest need."
Throughout her life, Emily Dickinson showed a profound respect for
the mysteries of worldly existence. In her poems, this creates an
atmosphere of prayer and contemplation, a search for something
beyond the simple answers: "Some things that fly there be, - /
Birds, hours, the bumble-bee: / Of these no elegy." Amid such
fleeting things, she catches a glimpse of eternity. With a
beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript,
this edition of The Emily Dickinson Collection is a classic of
American poetry reimagined for modern readers.
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