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Extracting the stone of madness: poems 1962-1972

By Yvette , Pizarnik , Alejandra;Siegert

Book information

Publisher
New Directions
ISBN
9780811216432, 0811216438
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
594 kB (607977 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Poetry;Electronic books

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."

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