A Musical Hell
Alejandra Pizarnik author Yvette Siegert translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published:23rd Aug '13
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"An aura of legendary prestige surrounds the work of Alejandra Pizarnik," writes César 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
ISBN: 9780811220965
Dimensions: 226mm x 152mm x 8mm
Weight: 114g
48 pages