LADIES IN WHITE: EMILY DICKINSON AND BLANCA VARELA, A DIALOGUE

Blanca Varela read Emily Dickinson, admired her, and dedicated to her "Dama de blanco", a poem from her last published book, El falso teclado (2001). From this explicit presence we propose here a dialogue between both voices, not so much to search traces of the Amherst writer's work in the Peruvian poet as to linger on the possible areas of contact between their poetics: a first coincidence more anecdotally vital, a certain deep and common harmony in the compositional consciousness of the poem, the always extremely significant mention of color -especially white in relation to black-, and the nebulous and ghostly condition that is established between their work.