Caroline Charrière felt at home in the world of the American poet Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) and it is not by coincidence. Writing poems in secret was for Emily Dickinson, who lived in a strict puritan environment, an escape, a space of freedom where everything could be said ... without saying it.

For Caroline Charrière, composing also represented a space of freedom, of inner freedom. Emily Dickinson lived physically recluse, in her family house. Through the newspapers, she kept abreast of t...