Plus or Minus Books –
Poems need air.

Iconic poets in the public domain risk being known for their body of work or a couple of instagrammable stanzas, making it difficult to discover individual poems buried in the oeuvre. To read their work today usually entails an anthology, a large and definitive source of most or all their poems, in which the publisher runs the poems together, page after page, in a volume so complete it is suitable for a doorstop. This is not how the poet wrote the poems. Poems need air so they might come alive when we read them.

That love is +life.

Printed by hand from polymer plates,
red sewn binding, 100 numbered
copies. Six poems Emily Dickinson
(public domain).