{"id":36509,"date":"2013-12-19T04:42:04","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T09:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/?p=36509"},"modified":"2013-12-18T11:42:18","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T16:42:18","slug":"writing-whatever-hand-emily-dickenson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/2013\/12\/19\/writing-whatever-hand-emily-dickenson\/","title":{"rendered":"Emily Dickinson: Writing on Whatever Was At Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"
We were surprised to learn that the great poet Emily Dickinson often wrote her poems on whatever scraps of paper were on hand: envelopes, a household memo, the back of a Western Union telegram. The fragments of salvaged paper that held her astonishing poems \u2014many of them experimental work \u2014 \u00a0have been collected in the beautiful book\u00a0The Gorgeous Nothings: Emily Dickinson’s Envelope Poems<\/a>\u00a0by editors Jen Bervin and Marta Werner. \u00a0Writes Bevins:<\/p>\n Sometimes Dickinson\u2019s writing fills the space of the envelope like water in a vessel or funnels into the triangular shape of the flap…<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n