I fell in love with this video as soon as I heard Christina Davis state how "painful it was to misquote Dickinson" and how excited they all are just to talk about her. I realized at that moment that their are other people out there that love her as much as I do!

@tmac8892

7 жыл бұрын

Tracy Fiorenza grammar Nazi here. can we check our theirs?

I bought this book some time ago because Emily Dickinson is a name you hear in the book world, and I wanted to read some of her work. This book stood out to me in the stacks of a book store and I picked it up on a whim. It was wrapped in plastic so I didn't get to look inside before buying it but it is STUNNING. I'm not great at reading poetry and some of it goes over my head but, "In this short life that only merely lasts an hour How much- how little - is within our power" (A 252) was a striking choice of words that will stick with me forever. This video compliments the book so richly, thank you!

LOVE the bit about cleaning pixels away from image edges so that the pieces *look* like pieces of paper. Everything about this book was such a labor of love - details like this are endearing ...especially if like me you are intimately familiar with such work ;->

Absolutely priceless treasure. Thank you.

She is a superb speaker. Her voice is unique also. The topic - most fascinating !

A delight! Emily would be proud. Everyone involved in this event did such a wonderful job.

This is a beautiful book, I go through it often and get lost in the digital reproductions. Hearing the creators of this project talk was amazing. I was wondering why the accompanying transcriptions were smaller and not to scale, and hearing the explanation of wanting them to be keys to help but not compete scale for scale answered my question as if reading my mind. Beautiful work.

I've often wondered if Dickinson were to be brought back to life today and people questioned her about her envelope poems if she would just say, "I don't see what the big deal is. I just ran out of paper so I wrote on envelopes."

@paulhartnett4739

5 жыл бұрын

oh yeah

I fell in love with this video too 3 days ago I never heard of Emily Dickinson she is beautiful so much so much thank you for this video its simply wonderful xxxc

Beautiful masterpiece, Her heart beats fast. I shall call her beauty of time but it is not mine. Emily Dickenson.

Christina Davis

Ditto

Too heavy the unabashed unbearable pretentiousness of the speaker that I can’t stop my eyes from rolling back incessantly. The sound goes in, the eyes roll back.

@rukeyser

Жыл бұрын

Mmmm. What I hear is *writing* being read aloud by the writer. She is comfortable reading it because it is hers, but she IS reading - nearly too quickly for comprehension. It is careful, elegant, erudite language - so obviously everything this writer can bring - observing the way a naturalist sketches herbs and flowers - passion in the detail - This language is better on the page than in the ear. The only exception is when she reads letters - she slows down, shares the humor she loves in her subject.

i love poetry and Dickinson is up there....but this reverence as if she was a prophet and a god is ridiculous

@pokitary481

Ай бұрын

They're literally just revering a great poet lmao. How should they revere her so that it doesn't sound like they're revering a god? your comment makes no sense at all. Emily was prolific in poetry, that's why there's SO many things to talk about when it comes to her poetry AND her life.

Marta Werner was too irritating to sustain listening to, sorry. Take a breath!

@Orpheuslament

4 жыл бұрын

worthless comment

@liamodalaigh3201

3 жыл бұрын

why are you listening and who cares about your stupid self

@rukeyser

Жыл бұрын

She is a *writer* - not a performer. Her flaws are not about pretention but nervous insensitivity to how difficult it is to hear complex detailed passionate appreciation of Emily at this speed. On the page, this writing can be appreciated for what it is - ambitious, insightful, fearless.