Alejandra pizarnik biography books

Flora Alejandra Pizarnik was an Argentine poet.

Top Alejandra Pizarnik titles Extracting the Stone of Madness – Poems 1962 – 1972Extracting the Stone of Madness – Poems 1962 – 19 From the Forbidden Garden.

Back in Buenos Aires, Pizarnik published three of her major works: Works and Nights, Extracting the Stone of Madness, and The Musical Hell as well as a prose.

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Books by Alejandra Pizarnik

Poesía completa
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4.56 avg rating — 8,937 ratings — published 2000 — 19 editions

La condesa sangrienta
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3.71 avg rating — 4,287 ratings — published 1971 — 14 editions

Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972
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4.25 avg rating — 2,355 ratings — published 1968 — 12 editions

En esta noche, en este mundo
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4.18 avg rating — 1,936 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions

Diarios
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4.65 avg rating — 1,452 ratings — published 2004 — 11 editions

Árbol de Diana
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4.29 avg rating — 1,106 ratings — published 1962 — 6 editions

Prosa completa
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4.12 avg rating — 946 ratings — published 2003 — 13 editions

Cartas
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4.34 avg rating — 720 ratings — published 2013 — 7 editions

Los trabajos y las noches
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4.20 avg rating — 618 ratings &mdash

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Alejandra Pizarnik

Argentine poet (1936–1972)

Flora Alejandra Pizarnik (29 April 1936 – 25 September 1972) was an Argentine poet. Her idiosyncratic and thematically introspective poetry has been considered "one of the most unusual bodies of work in Latin American literature",^[1] and has been recognized and celebrated for its fixation on "the limitation of language, silence, the body, night, the nature of intimacy, madness, [and] death".^[1]

Pizarnik studied philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires and worked as a writer and a literary critic for several publishers and magazines. She lived in Paris between 1960 and 1964, where she translated authors such as Antonin Artaud, Henri Michaux, Aimé Césaire and Yves Bonnefoy. She also studied history of religion and French literature at the Sorbonne. Back in Buenos Aires, Pizarnik published three of her major works: Works and Nights, Extracting the Stone of Madness, and The Musical Hell as well as a prose

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Alejandra Pizarnik

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— Kenyon Review

One of the most significant contributors to twentieth-century Argentine poetry, Alejandra Pizarnik made a name for herself through her dark themes and diction. Heavily influenced by Rimbaud and Artaud, Pizarnik believed that suffering was intrinsic to the creation of great poetry. This concession to misery was apparent in her work as her writing was often filled with themes of solitude, estrangement, madness, and death—yet also included moments of tenderness. During her short lifetime she wrote seven books of poetry and one book of prose, as well as numerous translations, short stories, essays, and drawings. In 1968 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and later in 1971 she received a Fulbright Scholarship. Pizarnik struggled with nedstämdhet and ended her life in 1972.

The Galloping Hour

The Galloping Hour: French Poems—never before rendered in English and unpublished during her lifetime—gathers