This is the first edition of Dickinson’s poems to present in easily readable form her own ordering of the poems she bound into forty handmade booklets between 1858 and 1864, and of the poems
she copied onto unbound sheets between 1864 and 1875, says Miller, and it is also the first annotated reading of her poems, and the first edition to include the alternative words and phrases
she wrote on the pages of many of the poems. These are the copies and versions of poems that Dickinson kept for herself during her lifetime, but there are many others that she sent to
correspondents without retaining copies. After 1875 she kept her poems in a more miscellaneous state, some ready to send and others on scraps of envelopes, wrapping papers, or drafts of
letters. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
