Open Me Carefully

Open Me Carefully
Author: Emily Dickinson
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1998-10-01
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 081950033X

The 19th–century American poet’s uncensored and breathtaking letters, poems, and letter-poems to her sister-in-law and childhood friend. For the first time, selections from Emily Dickinson’s thirty-six year correspondence with her childhood friend, neighbor, and sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Dickinson, are compiled in a single volume. Open Me Carefully invites a dramatic new understanding of Emily Dickinson’s life and work, overcoming a century of censorship and misinterpretation. For the millions of readers who love Emily Dickinson’s poetry, Open Me Carefully brings new light to the meaning of the poet’s life and work. Gone is Emily as lonely spinster; here is Dickinson in her own words, passionate and fully alive. Praise for Open Me Carefully “With spare commentary, Smith . . . and Hart . . . let these letters speak for themselves. Most important, unlike previous editors who altered line breaks to fit their sense of what is poetry or prose, Hart and Smith offer faithful reproductions of the letters’ genre-defying form as the words unravel spectacularly down the original page.” —Renee Tursi, The New York Times Book Review

Emily Dickinson: Letters

Emily Dickinson: Letters
Author: Emily Dickinson
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2011-04-19
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0307597040

A selection of the remarkable letters of Emily Dickinson in an elegant Pocket Poet edition. The same inimitable voice and dazzling insights that make Emily Dickinson’s poems immortal can be found in the whimsical, humorous, and often deeply moving letters she wrote to her family and friends throughout her life. The selection of letters presented here provides a fuller picture of the eccentric recluse of legend, showing how immersed in life she was: we see her tending her garden; baking bread; marking the marriages, births, and deaths of those she loved; reaching out for intellectual companionship; and confessing her personal joys and sorrows. These letters, invaluable for the light they shed on their author, are, as well, a pure pleasure to read.

Selected Letters

Selected Letters
Author: Emily Dickinson
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 388
Release: 1986
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780674250703

A collection of letters written by British poet Emily Dickinson.

The Master Letters of Emily Dickinson

The Master Letters of Emily Dickinson
Author: Emily Dickinson
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
Total Pages: 56
Release: 1986
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781558491557

This volume analysis the three letters written by Emily Dickinson, addressed to a man she called Master. They are presented in chronological order, including transcriptions that show stages in the composition of each letter, and placed in historical perspective.

Reading Emily Dickinson's Letters

Reading Emily Dickinson's Letters
Author: Jane Donahue Eberwein
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781558497412

Original essays explore a brilliant poet's written correspondence

Emily Dickinson's Letters to the World

Emily Dickinson's Letters to the World
Author: Jeanette Winter
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR)
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2002
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780374321475

A brief description of the life of Emily Dickinson and a selection of her poems.

Letters from the Emily Dickinson Room

Letters from the Emily Dickinson Room
Author: Kelli Russell Agodon
Publisher: White Pine Press (NY)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: American poetry
ISBN: 9781935210153

A bright, funny, touching meditation on loss, love, and the power of words.