American Dreams

is the tale of the lives of two women in America at the end of the nineteenth century. Emily Dickinson the most aloof and bold American woman poet of the nineteenth century and Nell Kimball, the successful prostitute, the unconventional Madam who managed brothels as if they were organised businesses. Emily tells of herself in her fragmentary yet monumental autobiography that is her poetic corpus and her letters. It is an ethereal corpus in which real life is exalted, a corpus which was jealously guarded for all her life, hidden from publishers, shut away in that house of her father s where life itself invented a language which broke all rules and was shot with flashes of inspiration. Nell puts herself and her story on sale with the same lucid practical sense. She has no flashes of inspiration but says she loves life real life, made of bodies and needs more than any other thing. Hers is a pure instinct for survival. In the pages of her autobiography sex and its hypocritical fin de siècle ritual are registered in her book of cold accounting, made up of orgasms and brothel tokens. the real voice of Emily. the fictional voice of Nell. the hidden body of Emily. the flaunted body of Nell. Emily s soul. Nell s mask. Emily s words conjure up a world. Nell s words reflect it. Emily eternally at her window watching the world go by. Nell inside life itself. Emily and Nell mingle their voices and their stories in a cloth woven of sounds and images which find their completeness in music: songs by Aaron Copland and Charles Ives, original musical material of our time. A musical weft in which acting, instrumental performance, the electronic treatment of the voice, of words and sound salternate. Real sounds, virtual sounds for real bodies and virtual bodies: those of Emily and Nell.

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