On my studio wall I have a quotation from Emily Dickinson: "My business is circumference." I walk past it, wondering just how she meant that. I know that if I put my arms up in a sort of circle I’m making something of a circumference. Is that what she meant? To surround? To surround what? The world? All the laundry and pencil-sharpening and drudgery and excitement, all the discoveries and war and peace, all the birth and death and laughter and tears?

In her room in Amherst, Emily Dickinson wrote some of the most remarkable poetry ever composed. Only a few of her verses were published in her lifetime, but now all her poems are read worldwide. Her beautiful visions and haunting words cast a brilliant eye on the world around us and the world within us all. From the landscapes of nature to the landscapes of the mind, Emily Dickinson captures life in all its details and desires.