Dickinson on Love: 1 (Warbler Press Contemplations)

Emily Dickinsons 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. Many of her 1775 poems are devoted to 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 Dickinsons thrillingly unique poetry about the central animating experience of our lives.