Alejandra Pizarnik

Alejandra Pizarnik (1936–1972) was born in Argentina and educated in Spanish and Yiddish. In addition to poetry, Pizarnik also wrote experimental works of theater and prose. She died of a deliberate drug overdose at the age of thirty-six.

Alejandra Pizarnik

Alejandra Pizarnik (1936–1972) was born in Argentina and educated in Spanish and Yiddish. In addition to poetry, Pizarnik also wrote experimental works of theater and prose. She died of a deliberate drug overdose at the age of thirty-six.

Books by Alejandra Pizarnik

  • A Musical Hell

    Alejandra Pizarnik, Yvette Siegert

    Paperback, 2013

    The first book of poems by Pizarnik to be published in its entirety in the U.S., poetry at the edge of impossibility.
  • Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972

    Alejandra Pizarnik, Yvette Siegert

    Paperback, 2016

    The first full-length collection in English by one of Latin America’s most significant twentieth-century poets.

  • The Galloping Hour: French Poems

    Alejandra Pizarnik, Patricio Ferrari, Forrest Gander

    Paperback, 2018

    A beautifully produced and exquisitely translated edition of French poems by “the best exponent of the poetry of introversion and metaphorical delirium” (Italo Calvino)
  • Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972

    Alejandra Pizarnik, Yvette Siegert

    E Book, 2016

    The first full-length collection in English by one of Latin America’s most significant twentieth-century poets.

  • The Galloping Hour: French Poems

    Alejandra Pizarnik, Patricio Ferrari, Forrest Gander

    E Book, 2018

    A beautifully produced and exquisitely translated edition of French poems by “the best exponent of the poetry of introversion and metaphorical delirium” (Italo Calvino)
  • Poetry Pamphlets 1-12 (Boxed Set)

    Osama Alomar, Lydia Davis, Hilda Doolittle, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Forrest Gander, Oliverio Girondo, Susan Howe, Sylvia Legris, Bernadette Mayer, Dunya Mikhail, Alejandra Pizarnik, Nathaniel Tarn, Eliot Weinberger

    Paperback, 2015

    Collections 1-12 in New Directions' Poetry Pamphlet series