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 Rimbaud, the mysterious and fleeting presence of Lautréamont,” as well as to the “unparalleled intensity” of Artaud’s “physical and moral suffering.”
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131 printed pages
Original publication
2016
Publication year
2016
Translator
Yvette Siegert
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    Es una poesía muy dolorosa. Una edición bilingüe muy buena

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  • Nicté Toxquihas quoted4 years ago
    FIGURAS DEL PRESENTIMIENTO
    Cold in hand blues
    y qué es lo que vas a decir

    voy a decir solamente algo

    y qué es lo que vas a hacer

    voy a ocultarme en el lenguaje

    y por qué

    tengo miedo
  • Nicté Toxquihas quoted4 years ago
    Si vieras a la que sin ti duerme en un jardín en ruinas en la memoria
  • ♡emma♡has quoted4 years ago
    Don’t speak to me of the sun or I’ll die

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