Two years ago, Dominique Fortier published with Grasset a tender and singular tribute to Emily Dickinson, crowned by the Renaudot essay prize,
Les Villes de papier
.
Today, she offers us the second part of her diptych devoted to the recluse of Amherst, who died in 1886, after having composed precisely 1789 poems.
The tone of these
White Shadows
is equal, between tenderness, melancholy, emotional delicacy, poetic inspiration.
A second panel in the form of a temporal mirror, a kaleidoscope in black and white, where it is no longer Emily's presence that obsesses, but her traces, her spirit, her ghost.
The story begins with the death of this strange woman, who in her lifetime had published only a handful of verses, in
The Republican
and the
Brooklyn Daily Union
, to which Walt Whitman had lent his pen.
everyday poetry
Opening drawers, lifting the lid of a chest, her younger sister Lavinia discovers with amazement hundreds of paperolles, scraps of paper covered in ink belonging to...
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