Poesia completa – Volume 1: Os fascículos

by Emily Dickinson, Adalberto Müller (Translator)

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) é talvez a mais importante voz feminina da poesia de língua inglesa. Menos reclusa que compenetrada, e dotada de extraordinária erudição científica e literária para uma mulher do seu tempo, ela escreveu, ao longo de trinta e poucos anos de atividade literária, cerca de 1.800 poemas e travou correspondência intensa com diversos amigos, escritores e intelectuais. Contudo, sua obra apenas começou a ser publicada depois da sua morte. A partir de 1890, o sucesso de sua poesia passa a ser proporcional às dificuldades da transcrição e organização de seus manuscritos. Por isso mesmo ainda hoje circulam nos Estados Unidos três edições bem diferentes de suas obras: a de Johnson (1956), a de Franklin (1995) e a de Miller (2016). A tradução que apresentamos aqui segue a edição de Miller, que preserva a forma como a própria Dickinson deixou organizados os seus manuscritos. Apesar de ser conhecida do leitor brasileiro desde que foi traduzida por Manuel Bandeira (já no final dos anos 1920), a obra de Dickinson aqui sempre foi publicada na forma de antologias, as quais, em que pese a qualidade da tradução, muitas vezes impedem a leitura contextualizada de seus poemas. Nossa tradução se move, ao contrário, em dois eixos: costura e sutura. A costura corresponde ao respeito à integridade da obra, ao trabalho crítico-textual de trazer um texto íntegro e completo. A sutura, por outro lado, aponta para o que não se quer fechar na poesia de Dickinson, em termos de sentido, ou para o seu mais-valor literário, que é sempre uma meta e, por ser meta, melhor se traduz ao modo da metáfora. Sendo assim, qualquer ideia de fidelidade absoluta (ao ritmo, à imagem e ao pensamento) permanece apenas como ideal paradisíaco, do qual só os leitores, no confronto entre o original e a tradução, poderão realmente usufruir.

888 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2020

About the author

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.

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