{"id":5052,"date":"2020-03-03T00:01:15","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T06:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=5052"},"modified":"2020-03-03T08:47:14","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T14:47:14","slug":"on-wings-of-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=5052","title":{"rendered":"On Wings of Words<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"


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“Her poems soothed her sadness. Gave her strength. Set her free. With the power of her words \u2014 and the freedom of her imagination \u2014 she tasted spices in foreign lands, and hid inside a flower. She leaned against the sun, dwelt in the house of possibilities,
and rode a carriage to the ends of time.”<\/em><\/center>
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\nI’ve a review over at BookPage<\/em> of Jennifer Berne’s<\/a><\/strong> On Wings of Words: The Extraordinary Life of Emily Dickinson<\/em> (Chronicle, February 2020), illustrated by Becca Stadtlander<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

That review is here<\/a><\/strong>, and pictured below is a bit more art from the book. <\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n


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“Most of all, Emily loved her books. …”<\/em>
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“Then something wonderful and amazing happened. …”<\/em>
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ON WINGS OF WORDS: THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE OF EMILY DICKINSON. Text copyright \u00a9 2020 by Jennifer Berne. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2020 by Becca Stadtlander and reproduced by permission of the publisher, Chronicle Books, San Francisco.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Her poems soothed her sadness. Gave her strength. Set her free. With the power of her words \u2014 and the freedom of her imagination \u2014 she tasted spices in foreign lands, and hid inside a flower. She leaned against the sun, dwelt in the house of possibilities,and rode a carriage to the ends of time.” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}