Алехандра Писарник

Alejandra Pizarnik is a hugely significant literary figure, an iconoclastic poet who carved her own sparse language of paradox and despair from the collective unconscious of Western mythology and the dreamscapes of her own multiple selves. Her work probes the legacy of major writers from Kafka to Rimbaud, Lautreamont and other poets maudits, and in its own passionate complexity resonates with the ...

Revered by Octavio Paz and Roberto Bolaño, Alejandra Pizarnik is still a hidden treasure in the U.S. Extracting the Stone of Madness 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 ow...

Alejandra Pizarnik nacio en Buenos Aires y murio en esa misma ciudad en 1972, a los treinta y seis anos. Poeta, narradora y ensayista, su obra ha ido creciendo con el tiempo hasta adquirir la categoria de clasico indiscutible.