Emily Dickinson: The Gorgeous Nothings

If you’re like me, you love original manuscripts — that is, the actual pieces of paper an author wrote on and corrected. It’s even better when there are coffee stains or odd bits of marginalia. Well, it seems that Emily Dickinson wrote a lot of late poems on the backs of envelopes. Thanks to Marta Werner and Jen Bervin, we can look at full-size photographs of these rarities and read the poems exactly as Dickinson wrote them.

I’m linking to this site because it has a nice viewing system and you can spend a little time going over a number of images from the book. Last I checked, it’s available for less at Amazon (natch).