A Tradition of Rupture (Lost Literature, 26)

A Tradition of Rupture (Lost Literature, 26)

Literary Nonfiction. Essays. Latinx Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Women's Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Cole Heinowitz. Since the publication of her 1955 debut poetry collection, La tierra mÃ¡s ajena (THE MOST FOREIGN COUNTRY), Alejandra Pizarnik has captivated the imaginations of many of Latin America's most celebrated twentieth-century writers, from Octavio Paz and Julio CortÃ¡zar to Roberto BolaÃ±o and RaÃºl Zurita. Over the last several years, the majority of Pizarnik's poetry has been translated into English, garnering enormous acclaim in the U.S. and abroad, yet her extraordinary critical writings--including commentaries on figures such as Artaud, Borges, Breton, Michaux, and Pessoa, as well as intimate accounts of her own working methods--remain almost entirely unknown outside the Spanish-speaking world. A TRADITION OF RUPTURE makes these writings available to English-speaking readers for the first time, offering indispensable insight into the range of Pizarnik's reading and the principle influences on her poetics. The works collected in this volume also provide a rare glimpse of the famously introverted poet in her capacity as public intellectual and critic, revealing a voracious intelligence turned outward toward the world in vital dialogue with the words of others.

"For many years now we have known Alejandra Pizarnik as a poet who explored the mysteries of pain & mental suffering in a mode & at a level like that, say, of Kafka, & still more that of Artaud. What her translator Cole Heinowitz now brings us so forcefully is a sampling of Pizarnik's poetics & critical writings, as a further & necessary record of what it means to claim a life through poetry. Simultaneously subversive & tragic, hers is a full-blown work that cries for our attention."--Jerome Rothenberg
Country USA
Brand Ugly Duckling Presse
Manufacturer Ugly Duckling Presse
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781946433268
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Ugly Duckling Presse
Manufacturer	Ugly Duckling Presse
Binding	Paperback
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781946433268
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

A Tradition of Rupture (Lost Literature, 26)

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