Books by Alejandra Pizarnik and Complete Book Reviews
Alejandra Pizarnik, trans. from the Spanish by Yvette Siegert. New Directions, $18.95 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-8112-2396-6
First the first time, Argentine poet Pizarnik’s harrowing, decade-spanning opus can be read in an English translation, in this hefty dual-language edition. The chronologically organized collection—which includes her books Works and Nights (1965),...
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Alejandra Pizarnik, edited by Patricio Ferrari, trans. from the French by Patricio Ferrari and Forrest Gander. New Directions, $16.95 trade paper (112p) ISBN 978-0-8112-2774-2
The late Argentine writer Pizarnik (Extracting the Stone of Madness) kindles a wildfire of rapturous desire amid a twilight landscape of irrecoverable love in these poems that were unpublished during her brief life. In her waking dreamland, Pizarnik’
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