Extracting the stone of madness

Extracting the stone of madness (Paperback)

Pizarnik, Alejandra (Author)

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The first full-length collection in English by one of Latin America's most significant twentieth-century poets.  Reviews Pizarnik reveals an ecstasy in the instability of language and draws from it a mercurial, pathetic truth.Los Angeles Review of BooksIn compressed fragments, stark monostichs, and dense prose poems, the late Argentine poet Alejandra Pizarnik's oeuvre presents a rich inner world built from a litany of symbols.Scout PoetryI...was blown away by the thoughtful interiority-by turns delicate and brutal-of this Argentine poet, who died of an intentional ...

ISBN (SKU)

9780811223966

Pages

271

Weight

283g

Dimensions

218x142x20

Imprint

New Directions Books

Published

26, May, 2016

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