Hi, folks!

This is post number nine of #knowthyshelf, a meme/tag/ series of photos documenting my bookshelves.

1) Book from this shelf you would save in an emergency:

• Collected Poems: 1912-1944, by H.D., edited by Louis L. Martz (1986)  💘

2) Book that has been in this shelf for the longest time:

• Emily Dickinson: Letters, edited by Emily Fragos (2011)

3) Newest addition to this shelf:

• Helen in Egypt, by H.D. (1961)

4) Book from this shelf you are most excited to read or reread:

• Eve out of Her Ruins, by Ananda Devi, tr. Jeffrey Zuckerman (2016. Original: Eve de ses décombres, 2006)

5) Any poetry books?

• Sämtliche Gedichte, by Hilde Domin, edited by Nikola Herweg and Melanie Reinhold (2009)
• The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, edited by Thomas H. Johnson (1976)
• Collected Poems: 1912-1944, by H.D., edited by Louis L. Martz (1986)

6) Any nonfiction books?

• Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family’s Feuds by Lyndall Gordon (2009)
• Letters of Emily Dickinson, by Mabel Loomis Todd (2010)
• Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson’s Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson, edited by Ellen Louise Hart and Martha Nell Smith (1998)
• My Emily Dickinson, by Susan Howe (1985)
• Out of Africa, by Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen, 1937)

7) Most read author in this shelf:

• Emily Dickinson 💘

And now a question for you:
8) What does this shelf tell YOU about ME as a reader?

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Feel free to do this tag, too! As always, I’d love to peruse your bookshelves 🙂

Yours truly,

J.

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