Open Me Carefully : Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson
The 19th–century American poet's uncensored and breathtaking letters, poems, and letter-poems to her sister-in-law and childhood friend.
For the first time, selections from Emily Dickinson's thirty-six year correspondence with her childhood friend, neighbor, and sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Dickinson, are compiled in a single volume. Open Me Carefully invites a dramatic new understanding of Emily Dickinson's life and work, overcoming a century of censorship and misinterpretation. For the millions of readers who love Emily Dickinson's poetry, Open Me Carefully brings new light to the meaning of the poet's life and work. Gone is Emily as lonely spinster; here is Dickinson in her own words, passionate and fully alive.
Praise for Open Me Carefully
"With spare commentary, Smith . . . and Hart . . . let these letters speak for themselves. Most important, unlike previous editors who altered line breaks to fit their sense of what is poetry or prose, Hart and Smith offer faithful reproductions of the letters' genre-defying form as the words unravel spectacularly down the original page." —Renee Tursi, The New York Times Book Review
The 19th–century American poet's uncensored and breathtaking letters, poems, and letter-poems to her sister-in-law and childhood friend.
For the first time, selections from Emily Dickinson's thirty-six year correspondence with her childhood friend, neighbor, and sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Dickinson, are compiled in a single volume. Open Me Carefully invites a dramatic new understanding of Emily Dickinson's life and work, overcoming a century of censorship and misinterpretation. For the millions of readers who love Emily Dickinson's poetry, Open Me Carefully brings new light to the meaning of the poet's life and work. Gone is Emily as lonely spinster; here is Dickinson in her own words, passionate and fully alive.
Praise for Open Me Carefully
"With spare commentary, Smith . . . and Hart . . . let these letters speak for themselves. Most important, unlike previous editors who altered line breaks to fit their sense of what is poetry or prose, Hart and Smith offer faithful reproductions of the letters' genre-defying form as the words unravel spectacularly down the original page." —Renee Tursi, The New York Times Book Review
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La poetisa norteamericana Emily Dickinson nació en Amherst, Nueva Inglaterra, en 1830. Estudió en la Academia de Amherst y en el Seminario Femenino de Mount Holyoke, Massachusetts, donde se formó en un ambiente calvinista muy rígido, contra el que manifestó un obstinada rebeldía, pero que impregnó profundamente su extraña concepción de Universo.Emily Dickinson se aisló muy pronto del mundo y no admitió, a partir de entonces, entrar en contacto con nadie que no estuviera a la altura de sus conocimientos y de sus afectos, como lo estuvieron, por ejemplo, sus cuatro preceptores : Benjamin Franklin Newton, quien le hizo leer en edad muy temprana a Emerson, y luego el reverendo Charles Wadsworth, el escritor Samuel Bowles y el Juez Otis P. Lord, con quienes mantuvo una correspondencia abundante y asidua a la que hoy recurren todos aquellos que desean ahondar en la aventura espiritual de tan peculiar personalidad.
