Envelope Poems

Although a prolific poet, Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) published fewer than a dozen of her eighteen hundred poems. She preferred not to, and among the thousands of makeshift and fragile manuscripts of Dickinson's later writings we find her "envelope poems."
Intensely alive and charged with a special poignancy - addressed to no one and everyone at once - the selection of Dickinson's envelope poems and fragments gathered here remind us of the contingency, transience, vulnerability, and hope embodied in all our messages.