Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972

Alejandra Pizarnik

• Other Authors Yvette Siegert (Translator)
• Title

  Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972

• Date 2016
• ISBN 9780811223966
• Publisher New York: New Directions
• Description 271 p.; 22 cm
• Language English
• Collections Permanent Collection
• Summary

  Translated from Spanish

  Revered by Octavio Paz and Roberto Bolaño, Alejandra Pizarnik is still a hidden treasure in the U.S. Extracting the Stone of Madness 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 Lautréamont,” and to the “unparalleled intensity” of Artaud’s “physical and moral suffering.”—New Directions