{"product_id":"tradition-of-rupture-book-alejandra-pizarnik-9781946433268","title":"A Tradition of Rupture","description":"Literary Nonfiction. Essays. Latinx Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Women's Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Cole Heinowitz. Since the publication of her 1955 debut poetry collection, \u003cem\u003eLa tierra m s ajena\u003c\/em\u003e (THE MOST FOREIGN COUNTRY), Alejandra Pizarnik has captivated the imaginations of many of Latin America's most celebrated twentieth-century writers, from Octavio Paz and Julio Cort zar to Roberto Bola o and Ra l Zurita. Over the last several years, the majority of Pizarnik's poetry has been translated into English, garnering enormous acclaim in the U.S. and abroad, yet her extraordinary critical writings--including commentaries on figures such as Artaud, Borges, Breton, Michaux, and Pessoa, as well as intimate accounts of her own working methods--remain almost entirely unknown outside the Spanish-speaking world. A TRADITION OF RUPTURE makes these writings available to English-speaking readers for the first time, offering indispensable insight into the range of Pizarnik's reading and the principle influences on her poetics. The works collected in this volume also provide a rare glimpse of the famously introverted poet in her capacity as public intellectual and critic, revealing a voracious intelligence turned outward toward the world in vital dialogue with the words of others. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor many years now we have known Alejandra Pizarnik as a poet who explored the mysteries of pain \u0026amp; mental suffering in a mode \u0026amp; at a level like that, say, of Kafka, \u0026amp; still more that of Artaud. What her translator Cole Heinowitz now brings us so forcefully is a sampling of Pizarnik's poetics \u0026amp; critical writings, as a further \u0026amp; necessary record of what it means to claim a life through poetry. Simultaneously subversive \u0026amp; tragic, hers is a full-blown work that cries for our attention.--Jerome Rothenberg","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50094056145169,"sku":"CIN1946433268G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50148933239057,"sku":"GOR013186559","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1946433268.jpg?v=1750997458","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/de-de\/products\/tradition-of-rupture-buch-alejandra-pizarnik-9781946433268","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}