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Alejandra Pizarnik is a hugely significant literary figure, an iconoclastic poet who carved her own sparse language of paradox and despair from the collective unconscious of Western mythology and the dreamscapes of her own multiple selves. Her work probes the legacy of major writers from Kafka to Rimbaud, Lautréamont and other poets maudits, and in its own passionate complexity resonates with the great twentieth-century artistic and intellectual movements of Surrealism, feminism, and psychoanalysis. To date, however, though relatively well-known in the English-speaking world, her poetry has not been translated comprehensively into English. This substantial volume of her Selected Poems, translated by the award- winning Cecilia Rossi, rectifies, at last, this unconscionable lack.

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 fleet- ing presence of Lautréamont,” and to the “unparalleled intensity” of Artaud’s “physical and moral suffering.”

Alejandra Pizarnik es una figura de culto de las letras hispanas y una autora que se interno por infiernos raramente visitados por la literatura espanola. Su poesia se caracteriza por un hondo intimismo y una severa sensualidad o, en palabras de Octavio Paz, la obra de Pizarnik lleva a cabo una «cristalizacion verbal por amalgama de insomnio pasional y lucidez meridiana en una disolucion de realidad sometida a las mas altas temperaturas».

Esta edicion, a cargo de Ana Becciu, incluye los libros de poemas editados en vida de la autora y los poemas ineditos compilados a partir de manuscritos.

Acusada del asesinato de 650 jóvenes, Erzébet Báthory es una de las criminales más siniestras de la historia. En su castillo de los Cárpatos, a finales del siglo XVII, la condesa se cierne sobre sus víctimas para desangrarlas y conservar su juventud. Su leyenda maldita y fascinante pervive en el tiempo. La condesa sangrienta es una de las composiciones clave de Alejandra Pizarnik, sus páginas construyen un retrato perturbador del sadismo y la locura que las estampas del artista Santiago Caruso recrean con admirable maestría.

Alejandra Pizarnik nacio en Buenos Aires y murio en esa misma ciudad en 1972, a los treinta y seis anos. Poeta, narradora y ensayista, su obra ha ido creciendo con el tiempo hasta adquirir la categoria de clasico indiscutible.

Poetry. Translated from the Spanish by Yvette Siegert. First published in 1955 and now translated for the first time into English, THE MOST FOREIGN COUNTRY is Alejandra Pizarnik's debut collection. Here, the nineteen–year–old poet begins to explore the themes that will shape and define her vision: the solitude of the poetic self, the longing for artistic depth, and the tenuous nearness of death. By turns probing and playful, bold and difficult, Pizarnik's earliest poems teem with an exuberant desire "to grab hold of everything" and to create a language that tests the limits of origin, paradox, and death.