Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972

Type
Book
Authors
Pizarnik ( Alejandra Pizarnik )
 
ISBN 10
0811223965 
ISBN 13
9780811223966 
Category
Literature: Poetry  [ Browse Items ]
Publication Year
2016 
Publisher
Pages
384 
Description
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.” - from Amzon 
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