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biblioash01's review
4.0
"I mourn this morning, Susie, that I have no sweet sunset to gild a page for you, nor any bay so blue- not even a little chamber way up in the sky, as your's is, to give me thoughts of heaven, which I would give to you"
Dear Emily,
You opened yourself carefully
and undressed your heart in these letters.
for the purity of words you pour, I give this book 4 Stars.
But, I'm sorry I'm unsure about the personal references you had with Susan. Despite everything, this collection holds dear to my heart.
Here’s something from me:
Open me carefully,
Layer by layer.
Tear my skin, remove my flesh, expose my bones,
Embrace the void you’ve been left with
And let me dissolve into you.
Open me
As carefully as you can
For all my perfections are my flaws.
-Ashma
Dear Emily,
You opened yourself carefully
and undressed your heart in these letters.
for the purity of words you pour, I give this book 4 Stars.
But, I'm sorry I'm unsure about the personal references you had with Susan. Despite everything, this collection holds dear to my heart.
Here’s something from me:
Open me carefully,
Layer by layer.
Tear my skin, remove my flesh, expose my bones,
Embrace the void you’ve been left with
And let me dissolve into you.
Open me
As carefully as you can
For all my perfections are my flaws.
-Ashma
merjaan_7's review
5.0
i would give it all to have one singular conversation with Emily Dickinson. i cannot tell you how her words touch my heart and fill my soul.
daramillz's review
5.0
The fact that we didn’t read this book in my graduate course on Dickinson is honestly a travesty. What a tender work of scholarship — Hart and Smith’s editing keeps Emily’s words at the forefront always, but their careful arrangement and contextualization adds depth and richness to the experience of reading her correspondence. This does so much to shatter the image of Dickinson as the genius spinster recluse, and sheds light not only on her relationship with Susan, but also with her broader family and community. Though I was familiar with most of the poetry that came from this correspondence, seeing her editing process and having her work framed within the context of the different periods of her life made this a fascinating reading experience. I can only imagine how beautiful it must have been to have done the actual archival work that produced this book.