Extracting the Stone of Madness - Poems 1962 - 1972

Revered by the likes of Octavio Paz and Roberto Bolano, Alejandra Pizarnik is still a hidden treasure in the U.S. Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962-1972 comprises all of her middle to late work, as well as a selection of posthumously published verse. Obsessed with themes of solitude, childhood, madness and death, Pizarnik explored the shifting valences of the self and the border between speech and silence. In her own words, she was drawn to "the suffering of Baudelaire, the suicide of Nerval, the premature silence of Rimbaud, the mysterious and fleeting presence of Lautreamont," as well as to the "unparalleled intensity" of Artaud's "physical and moral suffering."

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Alejandra Pizarnik, Alejandra (New Directions) Pizarnik, Alejandra Siegert Pizarnik
• Assisted by: Yvette Siegert (Translation), Yvette (New Directions) Siegert (Translation)
• Publisher: Norton and Co Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.05.2016
• EAN: 9780811223966
• ISBN: 978-0-8112-2396-6
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 216 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies