The first book of poems by Pizarnik to be published in its entirety in the U.S., poetry at the edge of impossibility. "An aura of legendary prestige surrounds the work of Alejandra Pizarnik," writes César Aira. Her last collection to be published before her suicide in 1972, A Musical Hell is the first book of poems by Pizarnik to be published in its entirety in the U.S. Pizarnik writes at the edge of poetic impossibility, opening with a blues singer, expanding into silence, and closing into a theater of shadows and songs of the drowned.

A Musical Hell (New Directions Poetry Pamphlets)

Literature & Fiction

PIZARNIK, ALEJANDRA

Poetry

New Directions

The second set of New Directions Poetry Pamphlet series, from the Spring of 2013. The second set of New Directions Poetry Pamphlet series, which includes Vale Ave by H. D.; Eiko & Koma by Forrest Gander; A Musical Hell by Alejandra Pizarnik; The Beautiful Contradictions by Nathaniel Tarn.

Poetry Pamphlets 5-8 (New Directions Poetry Pamphlets)

Doolittle, Hilda

Tarn, Nathaniel

Gander, Forrest

Collections 1-12 in New Directions' Poetry Pamphlet series
This boxed set of the first twelve collections in the New Directions Poetry Pamphlet series contains:
Osama Alomar's Fullbood Arabian H. D.'s Vale Ave Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Blast Cries Laughter Forrest Gander's Eiko &amp; Koma Oliverio Girondo's Poems to Read on a Streetcar Susan Howe's Sorting Facts, or 19 Ways of Looking at Chris Marker Sylvia Legris's Pneumatic Antiphonal Bernadette Mayer's The Helens of Troy, New York Dunya Mikhail's 15 Iraqi Poets Alejandra Pizarnik's A Musical Hell Nathaniel Tarn's The Beautiful Contradictions Lydia Davis &amp; Eliot Weinberger's Two American Scenes

Poetry Pamphlets 1-12 (Boxed Set) (New Directions Poetry Pamphlets)

Howe, Susan

FERLINGHETTI, LAWRENCE

Weinberger, Eliot

Davis, Lydia

Mayer, Bernadette

Mikhail, Dunya

Alomar, Osama

Girondo, Oliverio

Legris, Sylvia

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.”

Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972

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.”

The Galloping Hour: French Poems

Pizarnik, Alejandra, Beneyto, Antonio, Caulfiel, Carlota

From the Forbidden Garden: Letters from Alejandra Pizarnik to Antonio Beneyto

Beneyto, Antonio

Caulfiel, Carlota

Essays & Correspondence

Bucknell University Press

Alejandra Pizarnik: A Profile

Graziano, Frank

History & Criticism

Logbridge-Rhodes

Alejandra Pizarnik : a profile

Diana's Tree: Arbol de Diana

Shearsman Books

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