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The Galloping Hour: French Poems (in English)
Alejandra Pizarnik
Synopsis "The Galloping Hour: French Poems (in English)"
A beautifully produced and exquisitely translated edition of French poems by “the best exponent of the poetry of introversion and metaphorical delirium” (Italo Calvino) The Galloping Hour: French Poems―never before rendered in English and unpublished during her lifetime―gathers for the first time all the poems that Alejandra Pizarnik (revered by Octavio Paz and Roberto Bolan~o) wrote in French. Conceived during her Paris sojourn (1960–1964) and in Buenos Aires (1970–1971) near the end of her tragically short life, these poems explore many of Pizarnik’s deepest obsessions: the limitation of language, silence, the body, night, sex, and the nature of intimacy.Drawing from personal life experiences and echoing readings of some of her beloved/accursed French authors―Charles Baudelaire, Germain Nouveau, Arthur Rimbaud, and Antonin Artaud―this collection includes prose poems that Pizarnik would later translate into Spanish. Pizarnik’s work led Rau´l Zurita to note: “Her poetry―with a clarity that becomes piercing―illuminates the abysses of emotional sensitivity, desire, and absence. It presses against our lives and touches the most exposed, fragile, and numb parts of humanity.”
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.