Alejandra Pizarnik

Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972

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The first full-length collection in English by one of Latin America's most significant twentieth-century poets. Revered by the likes of Octavio Paz and Roberto Bolano, Alejandra Pizarnik is still a hidden treasure in the U.S. Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962-1972 comprises all of her middle to late work, as well as a selection of posthumously published verse. Obsessed with themes of solitude, childhood, madness and death, Pizarnik explored the shifting valences of the self and the border between speech and silence. In her own words, she was drawn to the suffering of Baudelaire, the suicide of Nerval, the premature silence of Rimbau… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Siegert, Yvette (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-0-8112-1643-2
EAN: 9780811216432
Produktnummer: 34248485
Verlag: New Directions
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 384 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 591 KB

Über den Autor

Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-1972) was born in Argentina and educated in Spanish and Yiddish. In addition to poetry, Pizarnik also wrote experimental works of theater and prose. She died of a deliberate drug overdose at the age of thirty-six.