Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972

ISBN: 0811223965

Author: Pizarnik, Alejandra

Condition: New

The first full-length collection in English by one of Latin Americas most significant twentieth-century poets. Revered by the likes of Octavio Paz and Roberto Bolao, 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 Lautréamont, as well as to the unparalleled intensity of Artauds physical and moral suffering.