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“Escribes poemas
Porque necesitas
Un lugar
En donde sea lo que no es”

“Se viera un perro muerto me moriría de orfandad pensando en las caricias que recibió”

EVERY DAY ALEJANDRA ATTACKS ME. ENOUGH

Piedra de la locura is potentially the most beautiful thing I’ve read. Makes me deeply sad that Pizarnik is boxed in as a depressed women by so many when she continually battles hopelessness and loser existentialism (*cough cough Camus*) finding love, rhythm, poetry, and sensuality by digging into her wounds.

Gonna have to unpack in therapy

Sorry for the slow reading. I have a crippling crush at the moment.

Pizarnik crafts some of the most visceral, emotional imagery in a couple of lines. Her ability to create narratives via continuity in poems… wow