Co-published by Christine Burgin and New Directions, Picture Room presents the launch of Emily Dickinson's Envelope Poems.
Although a very prolific poet, Emily Dickinson published fewer than a dozen of her eighteen hundred poems. She preferred not to. But among the thousands of makeshift and fragile manuscripts of Dickinson’s later writings we find her "envelope poems." Addressed to no one and everyone at once, the selection of poems and fragments Dickinson wrote on these repurposed envelopes are intensely alive and charged with a special poignancy. Collected together in this volume, they remind us of the contingency, transience, vulnerability, and hope embodied in every message we send.
Oct 4th 2016