A Page from the #DrawingPapers Archive This page from Drawing Papers 109 features #RobertWalser’s Microscript 131 from April – May 1926. The 2013 exhibition Dickinson/Walser: Pencil Sketches brought together Emily Dickinson’s original poem manuscripts and Robert Walser’s microscripts for the first time in an art museum setting. Both writers were obsessively private as well as peculiarly attentive to the visuality of their texts. Walser wrote in tiny, inscrutable script on narrow strips of paper using an antiquated German alphabet that was long considered indecipherable. Similarly, Dickinson fitted her multifarious poetic fragments to carefully torn pieces of envelope or stationery, which were discovered among her posthumous papers. In both cases, the form of these texts affects the language itself as both writers crafted their words in response to the form at hand, leaving us with a language that must been seen, not only read. The Drawing Papers are a series of publications documenti...