En esta edición bilingüe, con ilustraciones de Lea Kleiner, el lector podrá leer poemas y también las cartas de Emily Dickinson (muchas de ellas verdaderos poemas en prosa), traducidos—con rigor y lucidez—por tres poetas chilenos contemporáneos: Rodrigo Olavarría, Enrique Winter y Verónica Zondek. Emily Dickinson, poeta invisibilizada en su tiempo, es hoy una de las voces más deslumbrantes de la poesía universal. Pocos han rozado el misterio, como ella lo hizo, llevando la poesía a «zonas mudas» del sentido. Y lo hizo con levedad (no liviandad) y, al mismo tiempo, con densidad poética. Dickinson, que vivió una vida «fuera del mundo» y no exenta de angustias y zozobras interiores, nos regala una alegría y una extrañeza inéditas: «El júbilo es el camino / de un alma al interior del mar / tras las casas—tras los cabos— / a la honda eternidad». Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) Es autora de 1789 poemas breves en torno al misterio de la existencia, de los cuales apenas publicó una docena en vida. Hoy se la considera la poeta más popular y, a la vez, la más rupturista en la historia de Estados Unidos. Residió en Amherst. Rodrigo Olavarría (1979) Es autor de las novelas Cuaderno esclavo y Alameda tras las rejas y el poemario La noche migratoria. Ha traducido libros de Herman Melville, Edgar Lee Masters y Allen Ginsberg, entre otros. Reside en Santiago. Enrique Winter (1982) Es autor del poemario Lengua de señas, la novela Las bolsas de basura y el disco Agua en polvo, entre otros. Ha traducido libros de G. K. Chesterton, Philip Larkin y Charles Bernstein. Reside en Valparaíso. Verónica Zondek (1953) Es autora de los poemarios Fuego frío, Un parto lento y Vagido, entre otros. Ha traducido libros de Gottfried Benn, Anne Sexton, Derek Walcott, June Jordan y Anne Carson. Reside en Valdivia.
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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...
