COLOPHON: "No one really knows why Emily Dickinson started to bind clean copies of her poems into little booklets or fascicle in 1858. What is clear is that 1858 was the year she got serious about writing poetry. Fully 65% of her 1,789 known poems were written between 1858 and 1865, with her output increasing each year. After 1865 she slowed to a trickle, averaging about 46 per year until the end of her life in 1886. One speculation is that when her family hired a maid in 1856, Dickinson began to have more leisure. The maid left in 1865 and wasn't replaced until 1869. Or, perhaps, at the age of 28, she knew marriage and child rearing weren't for her, and she needed an avocation. So she chose poetess. This book imagines Dickinson's decision to embark on her poetic journey. While Dickinson didn't keep a diary or account book, she was a copious letter-writer. Dickinson did write Snow Flakes, one of the rare poems she titled. It's bound in her first fascicle from 1858.
The poem is written in a hand-designed face inspired by Dickinson's own script. The book is printed digitally. Designed, printed and bound by Susan Angebranndt in an edition of 40."