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Emily Dickinson. Emily Dickinson Poems of Travel. 2024. Foreword by Caroline Kempner Kanner. 84 pages. 8 x 8 in, with 3 foldouts to 32 in. Text printed letterpress by Arthur Larson in Avenir Next on Mohawk Superfine White Paper, with 3 hand-painted prints formatted digitally in the style of Japanese wood block on Moab Entrada Rag Paper. Printed on digital press with archival pigmented inks. 100 copies: handbound by Stephanie Gibbs Bookbinder in full cloth white binding, with title stamped in silver foil on spine and front cover, artwork grain-critical along 8-inch edge, with endpapers of Mohawk Superfine White Paper. Price: $850. Rarely venturing beyond her Amherst home, Emily Dickinson wrote nearly two thousand poems, many set in regions far outside her experience: distant volcanoes, tempestuous seas, heaven. This edition presents selections of these poems of “travel”. The book design is contemporary. Each of three sections, Earth, Sea and Air, commences with an art piece which opens beyond the confines of the book, as Dickinson’s poetic visions expanded beyond the confines of her place and status.