A Musical Hell
Will be published approx. on 10. July 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
48 pages
978-0-8112-2096-5 (ISBN)
Description
"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.
Reviews / Votes
"Translated by Yvette Siegert, this collection recalls a collusion of whimsy and gravitas apparent in Cortazar's work while simultaneously presenting the poet's own unique lyric sensibility." -- Erica Wright - GuernicaMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 149 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
104 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8112-2096-5 (9780811220965)
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Persons
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.