The gorgeous nothings
Subtitle: Emily Dickinson's envelope-poems
By: by Jen Bervin, Marta Werner
Contributors: Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886; Werner, Marta L., 1964-; Granary Books (Firm)
Publisher: Granary Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Adaptations; Criticism and interpretation; Manuscripts; Artists' books; Specimens
Description: "The Gorgeous Nothings: Emily Dickinson's Envelope-Poems by Jen Bervin and Marta Werner is a limited edition artist book based on Emily Dickinson's late compositions on envelopes. The edition includes a portfolio of nearly fifty high-resolution double-sided color facsimiles with visual transcriptions. Marta Werner's lyric essay, "Itineraries of Escape: Emily Dickinson's Envelope-Poems," provides the scholarly, historic, and poetic context for these exquisite late writings by Dickinson. The edition is accompanied by a guide with a bibliographic directory for the fragments and a series of visual indexes."--Publisher's web catalogue.
Notes: Title from publisher's statement.

Bound booklet contains "Itineraries of Escape: Emily Dickinson's Envelope-Poems," by Marta Werner, with script "The wheels of birds" on gray cover.

Unbound booklet consists of a guide to the project, housed in a green folder illustrated to resember an envelope.

"The Gorgeous Nothings: Emily Dickinson's Envelope-Poems by Jen Bervin and Marta Werner is a limited edition artist book based on Emily Dickinson's late compositions on envelopes. The edition includes a portfolio of nearly fifty high-resolution double-sided color facsimiles with visual transcriptions. Marta Werner's lyric essay, "Itineraries of Escape: Emily Dickinson's Envelope-Poems," provides the scholarly, historic, and poetic context for these exquisite late writings by Dickinson. The edition is accompanied by a guide with a bibliographic directory for the fragments and a series of visual indexes."--Publisher's web catalogue.

"Each copy of The Gorgeous Nothings includes: A portfolio of 48 unbound double-sided color manuscript facsimiles on Red River Aurora Natural paper. The 47 manuscript facsimiles show the front and back of each Dickinson fragment at 100% scale accompanied by smaller visual transcriptions in blue; one index print is included. The portfolio wrap replicates page forms from manuscript A 821 / A 821a, and is made from Ruscombe David Cox with a cotton tape lift. The portfolio interior base is lined with royal blue Shikibu Gampi-shi paper over lignin free conservation board. Portfolio dimensions: 11 1/2" x 14 3/4" Print dimensions: 11" x 14" A 52-page essay by Marta Werner: "Itineraries of Escape: Emily Dickinson's Envelope-Poems" with seven digital prints tipped-in. The bound soft cover in Saint Armand Dark Linen with royal blue Shikibu Gampi-shi endpapers replicates page forms from A 821 / A 821a. The text is printed letterpress by Friedrich Kerksieck on Byron Weston Linen Ledger White. Essay dimensions: 10" x 7 1/2" A 32-page guide with visual indexes, a directory of manuscripts, a postscript and a colophon. The cover paper is Ruscombe Vert Forêt, the interior paper is Byron Weston Linen Ledger Bright White. Guide dimensions: 9" x 11 1/2" All of the above housed in a lignin-free archival box with an original line drawing in blue pencil, and a hand-painted seal of gum arabic, and gouache. Box dimensions: 11 3/4" x 15” x 1 1/2" The Gorgeous Nothings is published in an edition of 50 + 10 hors commerce."--Publisher's web catalogue.

Includes bibliographical references.