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Open Me Carefully
- Author
- Emily Emily Dickinson
- Publisher
- Echo Point Books & Media, LLC
- Publish Date
- 10 July 2026
- Run Time
- 5 hours 39 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Emily Dickinson's uncensored and breathtaking letters, poems, and letter-poems to her sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Dickinson.
For the first time, selections from Emily Dickinson's thirty-six-year correspondence with her childhood friend, 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.
"With spare commentary, Smith ... and Hart ... let these letters speak for themselves. Most important, unlike previous editors who altered line breaks to fit their sense of what is poetry or prose, Hart and Smith offer faithful reproductions of the letters' genre-defying form as the words unravel spectacularly down the original page." —Renee Tursi, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
This audiobook is expertly read by Kristyna Zaharek, with audio engineering by Mike Thal. It was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.
PLEASE NOTE: The audiobook includes a supplemental PDF. It will be provided on purchase.
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Details
- Author
- Emily Emily Dickinson
- Narrator
- Kristyna Kristyna Zaharek, Ellen Ellen Louise Hart
- Duration
- 5 hours 39 minutes
- Release Date
- 10 July 2026
- ISBN
- 9781648375989
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Echo Point Books & Media, LLC
Synopsis
Emily Dickinson's uncensored and breathtaking letters, poems, and letter-poems to her sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Dickinson.For the first time, selections from Emily Dickinson's thirty-six-year correspondence with her childhood friend, 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."With spare commentary, Smith ... and Hart ... let these letters speak for themselves. Most important, unlike previous editors who altered line breaks to fit their sense of what is poetry or prose, Hart and Smith offer faithful reproductions of the letters' genre-defying form as the words unravel spectacularly down the original page." —Renee Tursi, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWThis audiobook is expertly read by Kristyna Zaharek, with audio engineering by Mike Thal. It was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.PLEASE NOTE: The audiobook includes a supplemental PDF. It will be provided on purchase.
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