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fascicle booksand when she was testing,differently,and for a final time,therelationship between message and medium.  \n“What a|Hazard|a Letter|is-”Dickinson scrawled in alate fragment composed in a handwriting so disordered it seemsto have been formed in the dark.  \nThese manuscripts on envelopes(recycled by the poet withmarked New England thrift)are sometimes still referred to as  \nManuscript A842,“As there are|apartments in our|own minds”  \n“scraps”within Dickinson scholarship.But one might think ofthem as the sort of“small fabric”the poet writes of in one cornerof a large envelope:“Excuse|Emily and |her Atoms|the NorthStar is|of small|fabric but it|implies|much |presides |yet.”When we say small,we often mean less.When Emily Dickinsonsays small,she means fabric,Atoms,the North Star.  \nIn 1862,she wrote to her future editor Thomas WentworthHigginson,during a stretch when she was writing three hundredpoems a year:“My little Force explodes-”This enigmatic poet,petite by physical standards,is vast by allothers.These smallenvelope poems carry a poignant yet fierce art and,as the poetSusan Howe has remarked,“arrive as if by telepathic electricityand connect without connectives.”  \nWritten with the full powers of her late,most radical period,these envelope poems seem intensely alive and charged with aspecial poignancy—addressed to no one and everyone at once.They remind us of the contingency,transience,vulnerability,andhope embodied in all our messages.  \nThe fragments in this book are selected from thosereproduced in the complete collection of envelope writings,The Gorgeous Nothings,a collaboration between Marta L.Werner,the foremost scholar of Dickinson's late work,and the poet andvisual artist Jen Bervin(Christine Burgin/New Directions 2013;Granary Books 2012).Their transcriptions allow us to read thetexts,while the facsimiles let us see exactly how Dickinson wrotethem(the variant words,crossings-out,dashes,directional 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