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Wild Nights: Selected Poems: Large Print Edition (in English)
Dickinson, Emily ; Chalk, Miriam
Synopsis "Wild Nights: Selected Poems: Large Print Edition (in English)"
EMILY DICKINSON: WILD NIGHTS: SELECTED POEMS: LARGE PRINT EDITIONselected and introduced by Miriam Chalk One of the most extraordinary poets of any era, American poetess Emily Dickinson wrote a huge amount of poetry (nearly 1800 poems). This book ranges from her early work to the late pieces, and features many of Dickinson's most famous pieces. This new edition includes many new poems. Emily Dickinson's poetry is among the strangest, the most compelling and the most direct in world literature. There is nothing else quite like it. She writes in short lyrics, often only eight lines long, often in regular quatrains, but often in irregular lines consisting of two half-lines joined in the middle by a dash (such as: ''Tis Honour - though I die' in "Had I presumed to hope"). Her subjects appear to be the traditional ones of poetry, blocked in with capital letters: God, Love, Hope, Time, Nature, the Sea, the Sun, the World, Childhood, the Past, and so on. Yet what exactly is Dickinson discussing? Who is the 'I', the 'Thee', the 'we' and the 'you' in her poetry? This is where things become much more ambiguous. Dickinson is very clear at times in her poetry, until one considers deeper exactly what she is saying - but this ambiguity is one of the hallmarks and the delights of her art. As an example of Emily Dickinson's idiosyncratic use of punctuation, particularly the dash, this is from "Behind me - dips Eternity" Behind me - dips Eternity - Before Me - Immortality - Myself - the Term Death but the Drift of Eastern Gray, Dissolving into Dawn away, Before the West - No other poet has made such a distinctive use of the dash which does for full stops, commas, colons and semi-colons. The dash serves to break up the flow of Dickinson's verse, but it also connects together a series of thoughts. The only other poet I can think of who uses the dash so profusely is Arthur Rimbaud. As with Rimbaud, Dickinson's use of the dash hints at a rush of information, one phrase piling on top of the other. It is a rush of data which's sometimes found in mystical writings. As with Rimbaud, Dickinson's poetry sometimes looks as if she were very excited, as if the experience in the poetry is threatening to erupt out of the form of the verse.Some poets went for using punctuation at all (or very little), which we find in poets such as Ezra Pound or Allen Ginsberg. With Dickinson, though, there is no (or not much) difficulty in how she is trying to speak. There is ambiguity, but it is not the same as the ambiguities in Joyce or Stein. Dickinson also employs a profusion of exclamation marks - as many (if not more) than the equally exuberant Romantic poets. There is a state that Dickinson's poetic persona gets into, that requires the use of exclamation marks to communicate her exultation. Large Print Edition - set in 18-point type. Includes an introduction, bibliography, notes. 148 pages. www.crmoon.com
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (Amherst, Massachusetts, 10 de diciembre de 1830 - Amherst, 15 de mayo de 1886) fue una poetisa estadounidense, su poesía apasionada la ha colocado en el reducido panteón de poetas fundamentales estadounidenses junto a Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson y Walt Whitman.
Dickinson procedía de una familia de prestigio y poseía fuertes lazos con su comunidad, aunque vivió gran parte de su vida recluida en su casa. Tras estudiar durante siete años en Amherst Academy, asistió brevemente al seminario femenino Mount Holyoke antes de regresar a la casa familiar en Amherst.
En la intimidad de su hogar, Dickinson era una prolífica poeta; sin embargo, durante su vida no se llegó a publicar ni una docena de sus casi 1800 poemas. El trabajo publicado durante su vida fue alterado significativamente por los editores, adaptándolos a las reglas y convenciones poéticas de la época. No obstante, los poemas de Dickinson son únicos en comparación con los de sus contemporáneos: contienen líneas cortas, por lo general carecen de título, contienen rimas consonantes imperfectas [half rhyme] y una puntuación poco convencional. Muchos de sus poemas se centran en temas relacionados con la muerte y la inmortalidad, dos temas también recurrentes en las cartas que enviaba a sus amigos.
Los conocidos de Dickinson probablemente sabían de sus escritos pero no fue hasta después de su muerte, en 1886, cuando Lavinia, la hermana pequeña de Dickinson, descubrió los poemas que Emily guardaba y se logró hacer evidente la amplitud de su obra. Su primera colección de poesías se publicó en 1890 por conocidos personajes como Thomas Wentworth Higginson y Mabel Loomis Todd, aunque alteraron significativamente los originales. El erudito Thomas H. Johnson publicó en 1955 una colección completa de Dickinson, la primera de su poesía, y en su mayoría sin cambios. A pesar de que tuvo una crítica y recepción desfavorable y escéptica entre finales del siglo XIX y principios del XX, Emily Dickinson está considerada de forma casi universal como una de las más importantes poetas estadounidenses de todos los tiempos.
