The artist Kiki Smith has made prints for every page of the poetry, as well as the half-title page and a portrait of Emily Dickinson on the frontispiece, 206 images in all. These are original prints. Kiki Smith has made the matrix for each image. She scratched lines in the emulsion of photographic negatives with an etching needle and other sharp-pointed tools, thus allowing light to pass through them in the making of photopolymer plates for letterpress printing.

Kiki Smith decided to make images in the manner of samplers, traditionally sewn by young women to demonstrate their domestic skills. She studied examples in the collections of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

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