{"product_id":"the-wider-sky-dickinson-poems-journal","title":"The Wider Sky — Dickinson Poems Journal","description":"\u003cp\u003eDickinson wrote this in the 1860s, in a house she rarely left, and still chose the word \"Brain\" over \"mind.\" That distinction was the whole argument.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEmily Dickinson — manuscript, c. 1862\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"The Brain—is wider than the Sky—\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe wrote it around 1862 — during her most prolific stretch — and sent it to no one, keeping her poems in hand-sewn booklets, in a trunk, in a house she rarely left. The brain didn't need to travel; it was already wider than the sky. A journal is where you find out if she was right — where the thinking that happens in private turns out to be larger than anything visible from where you're sitting. The poem wasn't published until 1896, a decade after her death, in an edition that tidied away the dashes she'd meant to keep.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTHE BRAIN— dominates the cover in capitals, the em dash attached, the rest of the poem following in a smaller voice beneath it — exactly as Dickinson punctuated it. The dashes weren't restored to print until 1955, but they were always hers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso on the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/the-wider-sky-dickinson-quote-t-shirt\"\u003eWider Sky Tee\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/the-wider-sky-dickinson-mug\"\u003eMug\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/the-wider-sky-dickinson-phone-case\"\u003ePhone Case\u003c\/a\u003e. More Dickinson: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/possibility-dickinson-curious-mind-t-shirt\"\u003ePossibility Tee\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/the-every-door-dickinson-curious-mind-t-shirt\"\u003eThe Every Door Tee\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout This Journal\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5.5″ × 8.5″ hardcover — 120 lined pages, acid-free paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eElastic band closure, ribbon bookmark, lay-flat binding\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWho It's For\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe thinker who writes to find out what they think — who's written their way to an understanding they couldn't reach by thinking alone\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnyone who's filled a journal and been surprised at what was in it\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Dickinson reader who keeps a journal because it's the widest space they have access to\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOpen it. THE BRAIN— is already wider than the sky. Prove it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eEmily Dickinson, in Plain English\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLived: 1830–1886, Amherst, Massachusetts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"The Brain—is wider than the Sky—\" was written around 1862, during her most productive years\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCorresponded with Thomas Wentworth Higginson for 24 years, showed him her work, called him her \"preceptor,\" and never let him publish it\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShe never saw her poems in print as she wrote them; within a decade of her death they were in classrooms and already being argued about\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDied at 55, having never left Amherst for more than a few days; her work has never gone out of print\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Quoteiac","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42644985086046,"sku":"7989342_16952","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/8664\/4318\/files\/The_Wider_Sky_Dickinson_Poems_Journal_front.png?v=1782880286","url":"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/the-wider-sky-dickinson-poems-journal","provider":"Quoteiac","version":"1.0","type":"link"}