More embroidered poetry and Emily Dickinson

Poem by Montana Ray

Iviva Olenick embroidered Poem by Montana Ray  via  EmbroideryPoems 

Olenick’s Twitter Poetry project:  @EMBROIDERYPOEMS  I’m collecting and embroidering Twitter “poetry,” including my own poems via my alter ego @EmbroideryPoems. Tweet me @EmbroideryPoems or @IvivaOlenick and your pithy insights may end up in stitches.

more emily dickinson:

emilyardagh's avatarA poem for every day

“Why do I love” You, Sir?
Because—
The Wind does not require the Grass
To answer—Wherefore when He pass
She cannot keep Her place.

Because He knows—and
Do not You—
And We know not—
Enough for Us
The Wisdom it be so—

The Lightning—never asked an Eye
Wherefore it shut—when He was by—
Because He knows it cannot speak—
And reasons not contained—
—Of Talk—
There be—preferred by Daintier Folk—

The Sunrise—Sire—compelleth Me—
Because He’s Sunrise—and I see—
Therefore—Then—
I love Thee—

This breathtakingly unique and original poem by Emily Dickinson expresses the notion that love cannot be explained (and cannot, must not be justified) by reason or logic. Dickinson was an incredibly innovative poet, ahead of her time; although she lived in the 1800s, the way she writes often reminds me of 20th century poet E.E. Cummings. This piece is a perfect example of that. Notice the way she…

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Huge, Nearly-Wordless, Embroidered Facsimiles of Emily Dickinson’s Handwritten Manuscripts, by Jen Bervin

EMILY DICKINSON

The Gorgeous Nothings: Emily Dickinson’s Envelope Poems 

 

Emily Dickinson’s Handwritten Manuscripts Embroidered below

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Emily Dickinson’s poems went unpublished during her life and for decades after her death. When they were published, nearly all of her creative, idiosyncratic punctuation and personal notation marks were deleted or changed to more familiar, standardized, comfortable, and boring marks.

Jen Bervin, The Composite Marks of Emily Dickinson's Fascicle 28

Jen Bervin’s huge quilts (up to 40 feet by 8 feet!) flip that script: she has removed nearly all the words, leaving patterns of crosses, dashes, underscores, and strikethroughs. Bervin’s pieces give prominence to the marks most of us have never seen.

Jen Bervin, The Composite Marks of Emily Dickinson's Fascicle 28, detail.

What elevates these past curiosity up to artwork, for me, is that they use craft and materials to prompt worthwhile questions. For instance: Are these marks as insignificant, as non-signifying as they seem, spattered up there in red thread? Or, are they a thoroughly personal writing method (and how would I feel if my notebooks were turned inside out and shaken for weird punctuation like this?) Or, are…

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Schizophrenia embroidery at The Glore Psychiatric Museum

Schizophrenia embroidery….the need to express oneself comes out in so many ways!

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at the Gore Psychiatric Museum there is a psychological striptease in the form of an embroidery…read the post below for more info

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THE AESTHETICS OF GENEROSITY: a man gives his shoes to barefoot bus passenger

Wow, what a beautiful story!   It’s scientifically proven that being generous is not only good for our souls but for our health as wealth.  Below is a great related story!

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The Cinta Wrap

Ladies, wear your hair like a Mayan!

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Our fabulous product designer Tara Whalley gives a step-by-step guide to rocking the Cinta wrap – a fresh take on a classic Guatemalan style! Wraps will be available on our Etsy site soon!

Photos by Casey Ann

Model Juliane Kaatzsch

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