The gorgeous nothings
By: [Jen Bervin and Marta Werner]
Contributors: Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886; Werner, Marta L., 1964-; Werner, Marta L., 1964-; Granary Books (Firm)
Publisher: Granary Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York City
Language: eng
Subjects: 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 site.
Notes: Each copy of The Gorgeous Nothings includes: a portfolio of 48 unbound double-sided color manuscript facsimiles; A 52-page essay by Marta Werner: "Itineraries of Escape: Emily Dickinson's Envelope-Poems" with seven digital prints tipped-in; A 32-page guide with visual indexes, a directory of manuscripts, a postscript and a colophon. Cf. Publisher's Web site.

Edition of 50 copies with 10 hors commerce.

Rare Book copy: No. 15.

Includes bibliographical referencesw.