emily dickinson

Karen Holman

Roni Horn. White Dickinson CONFIDENCE IN DAYBREAK MODIFIES DUSK, 2007.

Roni Horn, White Dickinson: NIGHT’S CAPACITY VARIES, BUT MORNING IS INEVITABLE, 2007, aluminium and white plastic, 250 x x 5 cm, Hauser & Wirth

fuckyeahannecarson:

– Emily Dickinson, “Beauty crowds me till I die”

Roni Horn. “When Dickinson Shut Her Eyes” (1993-2004)

And were You lost, I would be – 
Though My Name
Rang loudest
On the Heavenly fame – 

And were You – saved – 
And I – condemned to be
Where You were not – 
That self – were Hell to Me – 

So We must meet apart – 
You there – I – here – 
With just the Door ajar
That Oceans are – and Prayer – 
And that White Sustenance – 
Despair –

fuckyeahannecarson:

– Anne Carson, from “Short Talk on the Withness of the Body”

a-quiet-green-agreement:

–Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours

“Sumptuous destitution”
is a phrase
scholars use
of female
silence.
Save what you can, Emily.
Save every bit of thread.
One of them may be
the way out of here.

elanormcinerney:

Index of First Lines | Emily Dickinson: The Complete Poems

June Jordan | Roman Poem Number Five

Nina Auerbach | Daphne du Maurier, Haunted Heiress

Shirley Jackson | The Haunting of Hill House

Dorothea Lasky | Two Doors To Hell | Black Life

Shirley Jackson | The Haunting of Hill House

June Jordan | November

670 | Emily Dickinson: The Complete Poems

Kiki Smith. Sampler. 2007, letterpress with ink and foil additions

Source: moma.org

Make this Bed with Awe

the-end-of-art:

Ample make this Bed—
by Emily Dickinson

Ample make this Bed—
Make this Bed with Awe—
In it wait till Judgment break
Excellent and Fair.

Be its Mattress straight—
Be its Pillow round—
Let no Sunrise’ yellow noise
Interrupt this Ground—

Wasn’t this poem heart-melting enuf without Sophie’s Choice getting itself all mixed up with it?