In this video for the Universe in Reverse event series created and hosted by Maria Popova, Emily Dickinson’s poem “Bloom” is transformed into a musical cinepoem featuring centuries-old pressed flowers from Dickinson’s surviving herbarium with music by Joan As Police Woman, art and animation by Ohara Hale, and lettering by Debbie Millman.
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