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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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Envelope Poems (Hardcover)
Emily Dickinson; Edited by Jen Bervin, Marta Werner
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R399
R321
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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 home 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. Full-color facsimiles are accompanied by
Marta L. Werner and Jen Bervin's pioneering transcriptions of
Dickinson's handwriting. Their transcriptions allow us to read the
texts, while the facsimiles let us see exactly what Dickinson wrote
(the variant words, crossings-out, dashes, directional fields,
spaces, columns, and overlapping planes).
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Silk Poems (Paperback)
Jen Bervin
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R402
R326
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In conjunction with Tufts University’s Silk Lab’s cutting-edge
research on liquified silk, Jen Bervin wrote a poem composed in a
six-character chain that corresponds to the DNA structure of silk;
modeled on the way a silkworm applies filament to its cocoon. This
poem, written from the perspective of the silkworm, explores the
cultural, scientific, and linguistic complexities of silk written
inside the body.
This striking, oversized book, designed to evoke encyclopedias, is
a highly creative amalgam of collage with a political bent and
poetry. From 2011 to 2012, American artist Mel Chin (b. 1951)
extracted all of the images from a twenty-five-volume set of Funk
& Wagnall's Universal Standard Encyclopedia (ca. 1953-56) and
began visually re-editing. Thousands of images rendered by
photomechanical reproduction that served a populist, mid-century
encyclopedia are reconfigured with 21st-century hindsight and
idiosyncratic connections that convey social and artistic
commentaries. Surrealism, humor, sarcasm, politics, history, and
beauty permeate these sometimes raucous, often confounding, but
consistently stunning images. Over 500 black-and-white collages are
accompanied by twenty-five poems, one per encyclopedia volume,
commissioned by Chin and author Nick Flynn specifically for this
publication. Writers range from the well-known to the surprising.
The Funk & Wag from A to Z offers mischievous fun with pointed
commentary and hilarity. Distributed for The Menil Collection
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