"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.
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Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-1972) was born in Argentina and educated in Spanish and Yiddish. In addition to poetry, Pizarnik also wrote experimental works of theater and prose. She died of a deliberate drug overdose at the age of thirty-six.
The poet Yvette Siegert has also translated The Reef by Juan Villoro and Alejandra Pizarnik's poetry collections A Musical Hell, Diana's Tree, and Extracting the Stone of Madness, for which she won the 2017 Best Translated Book Award.
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. "An aura of legendary prestige surrounds the work of Alejandra Pizarnik," writes Cesar 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. The first book of poems by Pizarnik to be published in its entirety in the U.S., poetry at the edge of impossibility. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9780811220965
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Staplebound. Etat : New. First edition. 64p., wrps. "A musical hell" is a selection of Alejandra Pizarnik's writing. Translated from Spanish by Yvette Siegert and introduced with a preface by Julio Cortázar, the work offers an entry point into Pizarnik's stark lyrical voice. The poems and fragments of words move through silence and speech, desire and erasure, and the uneasy boundary between the self and its shadows. Written with razor-edged clarity and surreal intensity, the text reads like a sequence of incantations - at once tender and menacing - revealing Pizarnik's preoccupation with language as both refuge and wound. N° de réf. du vendeur 198848
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. "An aura of legendary prestige surrounds the work of Alejandra Pizarnik," writes Cesar 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. The first book of poems by Pizarnik to be published in its entirety in the U.S., poetry at the edge of impossibility. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9780811220965
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. "An aura of legendary prestige surrounds the work of Alejandra Pizarnik," writes Cesar 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. The first book of poems by Pizarnik to be published in its entirety in the U.S., poetry at the edge of impossibility. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9780811220965
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