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Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886.
Poems, edited by two of her friends, T.W. Higginson and Mabel
Loomis Todd. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1893.
This copy is the fifth edition of the second series of Dickinson's
posthumously published poems. Only one of Dickinson's poems
was published during her lifetime. Todd and Higginson were contacted
by Dickinson's family after her death and asked to publish her
work. Both had corresponded with the poet and knew her work,
but neither had ever met her.
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Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886.
Compound Frame: Seven Poems; with relief prints by Susan Johanknecht.
West Burke, Vt.: Janus Press; London: Gefn Press, 1998.
A modern version of Dickinson's own handmade books; the cover
is constructed from needlepoint mat and bound in a backstitch.
The woodcuts and linocuts which accompany the text are abstract
to reflect the emotional content of the poems
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The Bewildering Thread, lithographs by Enid Mark; poems selected
by Ruth Mortimer and Sarah Black. Wallingford, Pa.: ELM Press, 1986.
The Bewildering Thread developed from Ruth Mortimer's plan for an
anthology of poems using weaving and fabric arts as metaphor. An exhibition
of woven prints by Enid Mark, at the Eric Makler Gallery in Philadelphia
in 1980, suggested to the compiler the possibility of collaboration
on an artist's book. The poems selected for this book are all by contemporary
poets, with the addition of the Emily Dickinson text to provide not
simply "the bewildering thread" but a continuous thread.
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Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886.
The World in a Frame. Drawings by Will Barnet; poems by Emily
Dickinson. New York: G. Braziller, 1989.
Born in 1911 in Beverly, Massachusetts, Barnet has had a long
and distinguished career as a painter and printmaker. He began
his career as an abstract painter, but he is best-known for
his figurative works which emphasize flat planes of color punctuated
by strong linear elements. The drawings for The World in a Frame
are plain and unornamented, reflecting the spare eloquence of
Dickinson's poetry.
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Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886.
Five Poems; relief prints, Susan Johanknecht. London: Gefn Press,
1989.
Susan Johanknecht is an American-born book artist living and working
in London. She founded the Gefn Press in 1977. The images on this
simple accordion fold book appear to be rather menacing kitchen utensils.
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