Name: The Galloping Hour: French Poems
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Author: Alejandra Pizarnik
ISBN: 9780811227742

portada The Galloping Hour: French Poems

Type

Physical Book

Author

Alejandra Pizarnik

Publisher

New Directions

Language

English

Pages

112

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780811227742

Synopsis "The Galloping Hour: French Poems"

A beautifully produced and exquisitely translated edition of French poems by “the best exponent of the poetry of introversion and metaphorical delirium” (Italo Calvino) The Galloping Hour: French Poems―never before rendered in English and unpublished during her lifetime―gathers for the first time all the poems that Alejandra Pizarnik (revered by Octavio Paz and Roberto Bolan~o) wrote in French. Conceived during her Paris sojourn (1960–1964) and in Buenos Aires (1970–1971) near the end of her tragically short life, these poems explore many of Pizarnik’s deepest obsessions: the limitation of language, silence, the body, night, sex, and the nature of intimacy.Drawing from personal life experiences and echoing readings of some of her beloved/accursed French authors―Charles Baudelaire, Germain Nouveau, Arthur Rimbaud, and Antonin Artaud―this collection includes prose poems that Pizarnik would later translate into Spanish. Pizarnik’s work led Rau´l Zurita to note: “Her poetry―with a clarity that becomes piercing―illuminates the abysses of emotional sensitivity, desire, and absence. It presses against our lives and touches the most exposed, fragile, and numb parts of humanity.”

Alejandra Pizarnik

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Flora Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-1972) fue una poetiza, ensayista y traductora argentina. Estudió Filosofía y Letras en la Universidad de Buenos Aires y tuvo formación artística de la mano del pintor surrealista Juan Batlle Planas. Además, estudió historia de las religiones y literatura francesa en La Sorbona. En su tiempo en Paris, entre 1960 y 1964, trabajó para la revista Cuadernos y algunas editoriales francesas y entabla una importante amistad con Julio Cortazar y Octavio Paz. En 1969 recibió una beca Guggenheim, y en 1971 una Fullbright. Se quita la vida en 1972 con una sobredosis de seconal. Pizarnik es considerada como la última poeta maldita.

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