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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Emily Dickinson's Gardening Life: The Plants and Places That Inspired the Iconic Poet

Emily Dickinson's Gardening Life: The Plants and Places That Inspired the Iconic Poet

McDowell, Marta

Hardcover

Literary FiguresGarden WritingGeneral World History

Publisher Price: $28.00

ISBN10: 1604698225
ISBN13: 9781604698220
Publisher: Timber Press (OR)
Published: Oct 1 2019
Pages: 268
Weight: 1.80
Height: 1.19 Width: 6.88 Depth: 9.25
Language: English
A visual treat as well as a literary one...for gardeners and garden lovers, connoisseurs of botanical illustration, and those who seek a deeper understanding of the life and work of Emily Dickinson. --The Wall Street Journal

Offers an excuse (if one is necessary) to linger yet again over the observations of a poet who, as Dickinson herself proclaimed, 'was always attached to Mud'. --The New York Times Book Review

Emily Dickinson was a keen observer of the natural world, but less well known is the fact that she was also an avid gardener--sending fresh bouquets to friends, including pressed flowers in her letters, and studying botany at Amherst Academy and Mount Holyoke. At her family home, she tended both a small glass conservatory and a flower garden.

In Emily Dickinson's Gardening Life, award-winning author Marta McDowell explores Dickinson's deep passion for plants and how it inspired and informed her writing. Tracing a year in the garden, the book reveals details few know about Dickinson and adds to our collective understanding of who she was as a person. By weaving together Dickinson's poems, excerpts from letters, contemporary and historical photography, and botanical art, McDowell offers an enchanting new perspective on one of America's most celebrated but enigmatic literary figures.

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