Black Wolf Books
Emily Dickinson's letters were poetic gems. Here, the most poetic passages from her correspondence have been sculpted to stand alone. Strikingly clear, graceful, and musical, they show her skill as a writer and thinker. If her better known verse formed her "letter to the world," the passages here may be the most essential of them all.
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Morning without you
is a dwindled dawn.
--Emily Dickinson
​No American poet ever perfected the art of love verse more than Kenneth Rexroth. Shunned by the literary establishment, his precise imagery, his direct expression of passion, and his fusion of epigrams from antiquity with Asian poetry was revolutionary. In an indelible poetic biography, contrasting his idyllic verse with the shambles of his life, his poems in this collection have been organized by his loves, affairs, and failed marriages, all annotated for a detailed literary and historical context.
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You wake me,
Part my thighs, and kiss me.
I give you the dew
Of the first morning of the world.​
from Marichiko IX​
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