Name: Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972 (in English)
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Author: Alejandra Pizarnik
ISBN: 9780811223966

portada Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972 (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Alejandra Pizarnik

Translated by

Yvette Siegert

Publisher

New Directions Publishing Corporation

Year

2016

Language

English

Pages

384

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.3 x 13.7 x 2.3 cm

Weight

0.32 kg.

ISBN13

9780811223966

Edition No.

Synopsis "Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972 (in English)"

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 Rimbaud, the mysterious and fleeting presence of Lautréamont," as well as to the "unparalleled intensity" of Artaud's "physical and moral suffering."

Alejandra Pizarnik

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Flora Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-1972) fue una poetiza, ensayista y traductora argentina. Estudió Filosofía y Letras en la Universidad de Buenos Aires y tuvo formación artística de la mano del pintor surrealista Juan Batlle Planas. Además, estudió historia de las religiones y literatura francesa en La Sorbona. En su tiempo en Paris, entre 1960 y 1964, trabajó para la revista Cuadernos y algunas editoriales francesas y entabla una importante amistad con Julio Cortazar y Octavio Paz. En 1969 recibió una beca Guggenheim, y en 1971 una Fullbright. Se quita la vida en 1972 con una sobredosis de seconal. Pizarnik es considerada como la última poeta maldita.

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