To continue the delightful conversation.....
About her "odd physical study" of Dickinson's textual marks Bervin writes, "it makes their presence on the facsimile manuscript page more striking, systemic factual--and their omission from typeset poems more evident."
So Why I consider Bervin's Emily project to be OK.
Bervin takes aspects of Dickinson's writing that are traditionally erased and makes them material, exposing to the air some of what attempts to normalize had locked away. I believe this project is important both in regards to other artists' books projects utilizing Dickinson's poems as well as Bervin's Desert and her other works that feature erasure.
So, an alternative form of the same project ---Granary's book edition:
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