"An aura of legendary prestige surrounds the work of Alejandra Pizarnik," writes C sar Aira. Her last collection to be published before her suicide in 1972, A Musical Hell is the first book of poems by Pizarnik to be published in its entirety in the U.S. Pizarnik writes at the edge of poetic impossi[...]

Exchanging Lives makes available for the first time in English the work of an outstanding Latin American poet, the Argentinian Alejandra Pizarnik. Pizarnik's work has been celebrated in feminist criticism for its subversive use of violent myth (comparable to the later work of Angela Carter). But Exc[...]

Det sägs att Alejandra Pizarniks död var lika välregisserad som en klassisk teater ? i hennes egen makabra stil naturligtvis; och det sägs att hennes vänner fann den döda kroppen i arbetsrummet på Calle Montevideo i Buenos Aires, 25 september, 1972, omgiven av uppsprättade dockor med sminkad[...]