A Musical Hell by Alejandra Pizarnik

A Musical Hell by Alejandra Pizarnik

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.

"Translated by Yvette Siegert, this collection recalls a collusion of whimsy and gravitas apparent in Cortázar’s work while simultaneously presenting the poet’s own unique lyric sensibility" -- Erica Wright - Guernica

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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ISBN 13	9780811220965
ISBN 10	0811220966
Title	A Musical Hell
Author	Alejandra Pizarnik
Series	New Directions Poetry Pamphlets
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	New Directions Publishing Corporation
Year published	2013-08-23
Number of pages	48
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.