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Letters from Alejandra Pizarnik to Antonio Beneyto

By: Alejandra Pizarnik,Antonio Beneyto

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Letters from Alejandra Pizarnik to Antonio Beneyto

By: Alejandra Pizarnik,Antonio Beneyto

This selection of thirty letters and two postcards, written between September 2, 1969, and September 12, 1972, includes most of Pizarnik's correspondence with Spanish writer-editor-artist Antonio Beneyto. From these informative letters we learn about her influences, the artists, poets, and writers she preferred, and her reactions to them. She collaborated on various projects and cultivated many literary and personal ties with writers of the stature of Julio Cortazar, Olga Orozco, Octavio Paz, Pieyre de Mandiargues, Silvina Ocampo, and Luisa Sofovich, among others." "Although the corpus of Pizarnik's writing available in English has expanded in the last twelve years, it is still far from adequate. This is the first time that a selection of letters from Alejandra Pizarnik to Antonio Beneyto has been published in English. The translators hope that this volume will serve English-speaking audiences as a new bridge to her work."--BOOK JACKET.

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Bucknell University Press

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0838755410

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9780838755419

Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972

By: Alejandra Pizarnik

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Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972

By: Alejandra Pizarnik

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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New Directions Publishing

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0811216438

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9780811216432

The Galloping Hour: French Poems

By: Alejandra Pizarnik

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By: Alejandra Pizarnik

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 Bolano) 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 Raúl 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.”

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From the Forbidden Garden

Letters from Alejandra Pizarnik to Antonio Beneyto

By: Alejandra Pizarnik,Antonio Beneyto

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Bucknell University Press

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The Galloping Hour: French Poems

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Diana's Tree

By: Alejandra Pizarnik

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Diana's Tree

By: Alejandra Pizarnik

In 1962, Pizarnik published her fourth collection, Diana's Tree , the book that would both change and establish her poetic voice, and it contained the slimmest verses the poet would ever write. It also carried a glowing introduction by Octavio Paz, who by that point served as a prominent Mexican diplomat in Paris and had become a leader of the city's expatriate literary circles. Diana's Tree , wrote Paz, was a feat of alchemical prowess, a work of precocious linguistic transparency that let off "a luminous heat that could burn, smelt or even vaporize its skeptics." Pizarnik would live for only ten years after the publication of this book and her work would undergo several radical stylistic transformations, from the luminous lyric that captivated Paz to the dense, anguished prose poems of Extracting the Stone of Madness , to the more dialogic, sometimes absurdist structures of her mature work. When Pizarnik committed suicide, at the age of thirty-six, critics had already compared her to Sylvia Plath, and likened the scope of her literary influence to that of Arthur Rimbaud or Paul Celan. Forty years after her death, Pizarnik retains a prominent place in both critical and popular assessments of twentieth-century Latin American poetry.

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Ugly Duckling Press

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193702735X

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From the Forbidden Garden

From the Forbidden Garden

Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972

Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972

The Galloping Hour: French Poems

The Galloping Hour: French Poems

From the Forbidden Garden

From the Forbidden Garden

Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972

Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972

The Galloping Hour: French Poems

The Galloping Hour: French Poems

Diana's Tree

Diana's Tree

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