The Galloping Hour: French Poems

di Alejandra Pizarnik (Autore)

Patricio Ferrari (Traduttore)

Forrest Gander (Traduttore)

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2018

The Galloping Hour: French Poems—never before rendered in English and unpublished during her lifetime—gathers for the first time all the poems that Alejandra Pizarnik (revered by Octavio Paz and Roberto Bolaño) wrote in French.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 Raúl 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.” 

• Autore: Alejandra Pizarnik
• Traduttore: Patricio Ferrari, Forrest Gander
• Editore: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Anno: 2018
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 96 p.
• Dimensioni: 216 x 140 mm
• Peso: 127 gr.
• EAN: 9780811227742

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