Esta edición bilingüe reúne 185 poemas inéditos en España de Emily Dickinson, una de las poetas anglosajonas más leídas en nuestro país, agrupados por la fecha de su escritura, y acompañados del elegante trabajo artístico en papel recortado de Lucila Biscione. Su obra plástica, delicada y original, sintoniza con la sobriedad y la sintaxis rota de la poesía de Dickinson, sin menoscabo de la belleza, la paradoja o los pequeños detalles presentes en los versos. Dickinson fue una escritora prolífica, aunque solo consintió publicar en vida, de forma anónima, siete de sus poemas. A su muerte, en 1886, se encontraron casi mil ochocientos poemas, cuidadosamente atados con cintas en dos cuadernillos. «Los cuartetos que conforman este volumen constituyen una curiosidad. No forman parte—de forma oficial—de la obra poética de Dickinson. La poeta los escribía como pequeños amuletos y los enviaba—modulándolos según su interlocutor—como si fueran regalos, acompañando flores, o imbricados adentro de la prosa de sus cartas», explica la doctora María Negroni, traductora y prologuista de esta singular obra. Encontramos cuartetos florales y turbulentos, frívolos y crispados. «A veces, hacia el final, estos poemas se vuelven elegíacos e incluso áridos o abstractos. Pero todos se inscriben contra la retórica, se burlan del énfasis, manifiestan un deseo de contravenir las reglas, de confundir categorías y definiciones, para buscar el vínculo entre órdenes de realidad diversa», afirma Negroni. «El cuarteto es el sello que marca la poesía de Dickinson, su forma omnipresente y la más elaborada. (…) A veces, de esas miniaturas incandescentes salían poemas propiamente dichos. Su importancia en el conjunto es, sin embargo, crucial.» La artista argentina crea piezas poéticas que parecen sacadas de un sueño haciendo uso de las posibilidades que le da el papel: «Me permite plegar, aprovechar las transparencias, trabajar las diferentes capas. Es muy versátil y me da la opción de generar profundidad y jugar con las sombras». A través de un minucioso trabajo, crea un mundo de fantasía flotante. «Dibujo pensando en el movimiento y la materialidad, pensando que los personajes podrían cobrar vida», explica Biscione.
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Emily Dickinson was an American poet who, despite the fact that less than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems were published during her lifetime, is widely considered one of the most original and influential poets of the 19th century. Dickinson was born to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life. After she studied at the Amherst Academy for seven years in her youth, she spent a short time at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary before returning to her family's house in Amherst. Thought of as an eccentric by the locals, she became known for her penchant for white clothing and her reluctance to greet guests or, later in life, even leave her room. Most of her friendships were therefore carried out by correspondence. Although Dickinson was a prolific private poet, fewer than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems were published during her lifetime.The work that was published during her lifetime was usually altered significantly by the publishers to fit the conventional poetic rules of the time. Dickinson's poems are unique for the era in which she wrote; they contain short lines, typically lack titles, and often use slant rhyme as well as unconventional capitalization and punctuation.Many of her poems deal with themes of death and immortality, two recurring topics in letters to her friends. Although most of her acquaintances were probably aware of Dickinson's writing, it was not until after her death in 1886—when Lavinia, Emily's younger sister, discovered her cache of poems—that the breadth of Dickinson's work became apparent. Her first collection of poetry was published in 1890 by personal acquaintances Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd, both of whom heavily edited the content. A complete and mostly unaltered collection of her poetry became available for the first time in 1955 when The Poems of Emily Dickinson was published by scholar Thomas H. Johnson. Despite unfavorable reviews and skepticism of her literary prowess during the late 19th and early 20th century, critics now consider Dickinson to be a major American poet. For more information, please see http://www.answers.com/topic/emily-di...
