This beautiful edition includes an excellent new translation, as well as a graphic reinterpretation, of seven of Emily Dickinson's most famous poems, by Isabelle Arsenault, a contemporary artist who, through her mixed media illustrations, brings readers closer to of today the extraordinary singularity of the poetry of this figure of universal literature.

Emily Dickinson was a great poet whose life remains a mystery. Her poems, short, intense and contradictory, reveal an enigmatic soul. For this reason, her work cannot be approached with a purely textual criterion. Isabelle Arsenault displays a rich understanding of her poetry, creating a subtle meditation on Dickinson's life and how it influences her verse.

The book begins with the writing of a letter—his letter from her to the world—which roots and flourishes in the suggestive visions of her subsequent poems. Chimerical visions of despair and death; mirages of immortality, love and madness; and finally illusions of hope and praise for the power of creativity. Dreamlike visions that take us through Emily's inner world as poetic material, present throughout her work.

This edition brings together the necessary literary and aesthetic elements to bring Dickinson's poetry closer to those initiated in it, as well as to delight those who wish to enjoy the ideal visual complement to the words that this unclassifiable writer left the world.