For the first time, selections from Emily Dickinson's thirty-six year correspondence to her neighbor and sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Dickinson, are compiled in a single volume. Open Me Carefully invites a dramatic new understanding of Emily Dickinson's life and work, overcoming a century of censorship and misinterpretation.For the millions of readers who love Emily Dickinson's poetry, Open Me Carefully brings new light to the meaning of the poet's life and work. Gone is Emily as lonely spinster; here is Dickinson in her own words, passionate and fully alive.
Emily Dickinson Books
Emily Dickinson stands as one of the 19th century's most original and influential poets, despite fewer than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems being published during her lifetime. Her unique style is marked by short lines, often lacking titles, and unconventional use of slant rhyme, capitalization, and punctuation. Dickinson's introspective life mirrored the profound themes of death and immortality that frequently pervade her work. It was only after her passing that the breadth of her distinctive poetic voice, characterized by its formal invention and thematic depth, became widely recognized and celebrated.







Poems, Series 2
- 124 pages
- 5 hours of reading
Emily Dickinson's second volume of poems continues to captivate readers with its directness and simplicity, addressing profound themes of life, love, and death. Critics have praised her unique ability to distill complex emotions into piercing insights, a quality that resonates deeply with audiences. While it shares similar structural critiques as the first volume, it also showcases the same striking beauty and emotional depth that has garnered unexpected appreciation, further solidifying her compelling literary power.
Emily Dickinson is one of the most famous Anglo-Saxon poets, known for her fearless exploration of the heart, enchanting tone, and unique language. This first representative German edition presents over 600 poems in a new bilingual translation, offering fresh perspectives on the American poet, previously considered a hidden gem in Germany.
Complete Poems
- 784 pages
- 28 hours of reading
The startling originality of Emily Dickinson's style condemned her poetry to obscurity during her lifetime, but her bold experiments in prosody, her tragic vision, and the range of her intellectual and emotional explorations have since won her international recognition as a poet of the highest order.
Emily Dickinson's poems are characterized by an unmatched emotional and intellectual intensity that is cast into direct and accessible language of unusual brevity and grace. Some of her poems run for only a few lines but they survey the entire cosmos of human experience, including life and death, solitude and society, morality and nature. A good number of her 1,775 poems are devoted to the experience of love, which Dickinson expressed from the position of the lover, the beloved, and the poet who marvels how love transports and transforms us. This selection gathers Dickinson's thrillingly unique poetry about the central animating experience of our lives.
Emily Dickinson is widely considered to be one of the greatest of American poets. The aphoristic style and wit of much of her verse, its irregular rhymes, directness of expression, and startling imagery have had a profound effect on twentieth-century literature. Over a hundred of Dickinson’s best poems are collected here. These unique and gemlike lyrics are pure distillations of profound feeling and great intellect. They contain a world of imagination, observation, and precisely articulated spiritual and emotional experience. As editor Brenda Hillman says, this small and succinct collection can serve as a guidebook to readers who are exploring the highs and lows of the human experience.
Published in 1924, The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson is a biography by her niece Martha Dickinson Bianchi. Featuring detailed biographical essays and her letters, for the first time arranged chronically, the book stands as a retelling of her aunt's life from the perspective of family in an attempt to challenge the image of Emily Dickinson as a cold, isolated woman of mystery. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson is a must-read biography reimagined for modern readers.
Wild Nights
- 111 pages
- 4 hours of reading
A collection of verses on nature, spirit, faith and love by American poet Emily Dickinson.
A collection of letters written by British poet Emily Dickinson.

