“The way Hope builds his House” by Emily Dickinson.
Amherst Library recently made her complete manuscripts available online.
(Source: consecratedeminence.wordpress.com)
Emily Dickinson’s Shawl
(Source: ids.lib.harvard.edu)
Happy Birthday, E.*
*The ‘E’ on this name-plate is probably ‘Edward,’ Emily Dickinson’s father.
(Source: oasis.lib.harvard.edu)
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This is the fifth stop on poet Ali Liebegott’s pilgrimage across America to the Emily Dickinson house. Along the way, she interviewed female writers and poets, including Maggie Nelson, Amy Gerstler, Claudia Rankine and Sarah Shun-lien Bynum. Here is interview #5, with Rae…
Susan Howe on the Telepathy of Archives:
“In research libraries and collections, we may capture the portrait of history in so-called insignificant visual and verbal textualities and textiles. In material details. In twill fabrics, bead-work pieces, pricked patterns, tiny spangles, sharp toothed stencil-wheels; in quotations, thought-fragments, inscriptions, endangered phonemes, even soils and stains.”