Alejandra Pizarnik Antologia

by Alejandra Pizarnik

64 pages, Paperback

Published October 11, 2018

About the author

Born in Buenos Aires to Russian parents who had fled Europe and the Nazi Holocaust, Alejandra Pizarnik was destined for literary greatness as well as an early death. She died from an ostensibly self-administered overdose of barbiturates on 25 September 1972. A few words scribbled on a slate that same month, reiterating her desire to go nowhere "but to the bottom," sum up her lifelong aspiration as a human being and as a writer. The compulsion to head for the "bottom" or "abyss" points to her desire to surrender to nothingness in an ultimate experience of ecstasy and poetic fulfillment in which life and art would be fused, albeit at her own risk. "Ojalá pudiera vivir solamente en éxtasis, haciendo el cuerpo del poema con mi cuerpo" (If I could only live in nothing but ecstasy, making the body of the poem with my body).

Reviews

[lola carrer]

cuando se describe como la mahatma ghandi del lengüeteo dos párrafos más abajo de quejarse de ser tan inteligente que ya no sirve para nada…una maravilla

[Álex]

Me tomo más de lo esperado leerlo me gusto mucho y definitivamente se convirtió en una autora importante para mí

[izaro]

we love emakume lokita sarkastika bat iruditegi pertsonal sakon bategaz.

pena bat hain triste bizitzea, poema ederrak baina.

"asko jaiotakoa naiz
eta halako bi sufritutakoa"