Open Me Carefully

The 19th–century American poet’s uncensored and breathtaking letters, poems, and letter-poems to her sister-in-law and childhood friend. For the first time, selections from Emily Dickinson’s thirty-six year correspondence with her childhood friend, neighbor, and sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Dickinson, are compiled in a single volume.  Open Me Carefully  invites a dramatic new understanding of Emily Dickinson’s life and work, overcoming a century of censorship and misinterpretation.