2011 Emily Dickinson Museum Holiday Gift Box

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All orders must be received by December 15, 2011.  They will be shipped via USPS on December 17, 2011.  Sorry, no international orders.

Please click here to download a Gift Box order form.

NEW! Emily Dickinson Museum T-Shirt

Front: I'm Nobody!/Who are you?/Are you Nobody -/Too -?
Back: Then There's /a Pair of Us

Available in the following styles, colors, and sizes: (please indicate your preference on the order form)

• Unisex --slate blue, cedar (red)
• “Ladies-style”—old gold, blue iris
• Kids’ size—river blue

Sizes:S, M, L, X-L, XX-L

Garrison Keillor & Emily Dickinson: Face to Face (DVD)

On December 9, 2010, the Emily Dickinson Museum welcomed Garrison Keillor to Amherst for a celebratory performance marking the 180th anniversary of Emily Dickinson’s birth. He had heard of necessary repairs at the Dickinson Homestead and asked how he could help. His benefit performance for a standing room only audience at Amherst College’s historic Johnson Chapel was the answer. In this recording of his appearance in Amherst, enjoy Garrison Keillor’s remarks about and readings from a poet he clearly cherishes.  1 hour, 12 min.  EDM1505/956

Angles of a Landscape Emily Dickinson: Seeing New Englandly (DVD)

"Seeing New Englandly,” the second program in the series “Angles of a Landscape: Perspectives on Emily Dickinson,” explores the poet’s education, her lifelong interest in science and literature, her fascination with the search for the Northwest Passage, her response to the Civil War, and her despair when serious eye problems threatened her with blindness. 57 minutes. $29.95.  Purchase with Poet in Her Bedroom for package deal of $45! EDM1503/943

individual price

$29.95

Angles of a Landscape Emily Dickinson: Poet in Her Bedroom (DVD)

"The Poet in Her Bedroom," a 32-minute program, provides insight to the world of Emily Dickinson. This first volume of the television series "Angles of a Landscape: Perspectives on Emily Dickinson" explores little-known aspects of Dickinson's life and work. $19.95.  Purchase with Seeing New Englandly for package deal of $45! EDM1502/941

individual price

$19.95

The Big Read: Emily Dickinson 2011 Notecards

Set of 5 brightly colored notecards includes: The Poets light but Lamps, Wild nights, Tell all the truth but tell it slant, The Riddle we can guess, and A little Madness in the Spring; with envelopes.  Image originally designed for The Big Read: Emily Dickinson 2011.  EDM1538/184

Posters are also available.

The Big Read: Emily Dickinson 2011 Poster

Your choice of The Poets light but Lamps (yellow background) or The Brain is wider than the Sky (blue background).  Image originally designed for The Big Read: Emily Dickinson 2011.  11"x17".  EDM1539/855

Notecards are also available.

Emily Dickinson Museum 2008 Poster

The Emily Dickinson Museum's 2008 season poster, created by nationally acclaimed illustrator Penelope Dullaghan, portrays the reflective poet in a striking and expressive image. 18"x24".  EDM1501/853

Emily Dickinson Museum 2007 Poster

The Emily Dickinson Museum's 2007 season poster, created by nationally acclaimed illustrator Penelope Dullaghan. 18"x27".  EDM1501/853

The Poet at Home

This pamphlet is a good introduction to Emily Dickinson, her writings, and her Amherst home.  Illustrated.  Includes 3 essays and a map identifying 10 key locations of Emily Dickinson’s Amherst. 21 pages.  EDM1540/340

Emily Dickinson: Profile of the Poet as Cook with Selected Recipes
By Guides at the Dickinson Homestead

Both charming and informative, this selection explores the role cooking played in the poet's life. Known as a first-rate baker in her town and time, Emily Dickinson's personal recipes for various cakes, breads, puddings, and even wine are published here for use in the modern kitchen. Perfect for the Dickinson fan--or anyone with a sweet tooth!

Paperback; 28 pages with selected recipes. EDM1580/680

Life of Emily Dickinson
By Richard B. Sewall

Winner of the National Book Award, this detailed account of Emily Dickinson's life was considered a monumental contribution to Dickinson studies when it was first published in 1974.  Chapters about individual family members and friends as well as Dickinson herself provide insight into a life that the poet, as the biographer asserts, made a "delicate business" for posthumous audiences to piece together.  Sewall's work was the first to include details about the affair between Austin Dickinson, the poet's brother, and Mabel Loomis Todd, a posthumous editor of Dickinson's work.

Paperback, 924 pages, (c) 1998 (originally published in two-volume hardcover in 1974). EDM1557/342

$34.50

My Wars are Laid Away in Books:  The Life of Emily Dickinson
by Alfred Habegger

The most recent comprehensive biography of Emily Dickinson, Habegger's work sets Dickinson in the context of her times as well as her poetic development.  Named a Library Journal Best Book of the Year.

Paperback; 764 pages, (c) 2001. EDM1559/346

$20.00

The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition
Edited by R.W. Franklin

This latest edition of Dickinson’s complete poems, a must-have for any Dickinson lover, was published in 1999 as a reading version of Franklin’s three-volume variorum edition.  That edition, with 1,789 poems, updated the first complete edition of Dickinson’s poems (published in 1955 by Thomas H. Johnson) by including recently discovered verses as well as refining and reordering others. The reading edition contains all 1,789 poems in chronological order and one portable volume.

Paperback; 690 pages, (c) 1999.  EDM263

Emily Dickinson Selected Letters
Edited by Thomas H. Johnson

In this edition of Dickinson’s letters, Thomas H. Johnson has used his unmatched familiarity with the poet’s work to select significant and fascinating entries from her extensive correspondence. From a letter she wrote at age eleven to her brother Austin, to her exquisite final note to her beloved cousins written just before her death, these letters provide an unparalleled view into the life and mind of one of America’s most enigmatic literary figures.

Paperback; 364 pages, (c)1986.  EDM273

The Gardens of Emily Dickinson
By Judith Farr, with Louise Carter

In this substantial study of Emily Dickinson's devotion to flowers and gardening, Farr seeks to join both poet and gardener into one creative personality.  She reveals that the successful gardener's intimate understanding of horticulture helped shape the poet's choice of metaphors for every experience:  love and hate, wickedness and virtue, death and immortality.

Paperback; 350 pages, (c) 2004. EDM1570/676

A Spicing of Birds: Poems by Emily Dickinson
Selected and introduced by Jo Miles Schuman and Joanna Bailey Hodgman

Birds held a special place in Emily Dickinson’s heart and verse. Selected and introduced by Jo Miles Schuman and Joanna Bailey Hodgman, A Spicing of Birds features 37 Dickinson poems paired with watercolors, etchings, chromolithographs, and some of the earliest photographs of birds. Featuring such beloved poems as “Some keep the Sabbath going to Church” and “A Bird came down the Walk” as well as many of Dickinson’s lesser-known verses, this collection is a treat for poetry- and bird-lovers—just like Dickinson.

Hardcover; 86 pages, (c) 2010.  EDM285

Emily Dickinson:  A Biography
By Connie Ann Kirk

Using updated scholarship and never before published primary research, this biography peels away the myths surrounding Emily Dickinson and takes a fresh look at the complex and busy life of this genius of American letters. As a research tool, the volume is also useful for its explanation of current nomenclature for the poems, mysteries and controversies, and the poet's influence on American poetry and culture. Part of the Greenwood Biographies series, ideal for student researchers.

Hardcover; 216 pages, (c) 2004. EDM1553/747

My Uncle Emily
By Jane Yolen, illustrated by Nancy Carpenter.

Young Gilbert Dickinson has an uncle like no other!  His uncle wears long white dresses and never smokes cigars. Gilbert's uncle is the now-famous poet Emily Dickinson, though "Uncle Emily" is what he calls her.  In this delightful book, Jane Yolen writes of a difficult day at school during which Gilbert learns something about poetry, something about his aunt, and, most important, how to "Tell all the Truth."

Harcover; 32 pages, (c) 2009. EDM1552/746

Emily
By Michael Bedard; pictures by Barbara Cooney

This appealing and poignant book tells the story of a young girl's subtly profound encounter with her mysterious neighbor, Emily Dickinson. Enchanting prose complemented with charming illustrations make "Emily" a delight for readers young and old.

Paperback; 40 pages.  EDM1551/751

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