Performance by Ilene and Paul Kreshka (USA/Vienna): "The Belle of Amherst"

Emily Dickinson is considered to be one of the most famous poets of America, although she rarely published during her lifetime and remained relatively unknown. Her work presents recurrent themes – a mystic experience of the natural world, considerations of the poetic occupation, fame, death and immortality – and is expressed in her own, often dramatic, often mysterious language. She lived withdrawn in her father’s house in New England – tending her garden, baking the family’s bread and watching the passing show of small-town life from her window. To her friends she sent gifts of flowers and cakes with mysterious notes and poems which puzzled them extremely. Long before her death she had become a local legend in her town of Amherst – the eccentric daughter of the State Senator Squire Dickinson. Her romantic attachments were mysterious.

Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1830, where old-style church thinking was about to change, and literature was just coming to life. Here she lived a life, outwardly uneventful, inwardly dedicated to a secret task – the task of expressing in her poems her absolute truth, her ideas of life and death, of love and nature – the „landscape of her soul.“

In this one-person-show, based on the play by William Luce, guests spend an afternoon with the mysterious woman in white as she speaks about her life, her recipes, her loves and her poems.

More info: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/amerikanistik/gastvortraege/the-belle-of-amherst/

You may also like the following events from Amerikanistik Bamberg:

• Next month, 16th December, 04:15 pm, “Baldwin, A Love Story: A Reading with Nicholas Boggs” in Bamberg

Also check out other Arts events in Bamberg, Theatre events in Bamberg, Literary Art events in Bamberg.