Argentinian poet Alejandra Pizarnik — dead most likely of a Seconal overdose in 1972, a suicide at age thirty-six — entices the reader to try to puzzle out her life through her poems and would be ...

Alejandra Pizarnik, edited by Patricio Ferrari, trans. from the French by Patricio Ferrari and Forrest Gander. New Directions, $16.95 trade paper (112p) ISBN 978-0-8112-2774-2 The late Argentine ...

In her book Dark Museum (2015), Argentinian critic and poet María Negroni provides this description of the Gothic: “Between ideology and crime, the Gothic opts for an epic of intensity, one that ...

Alejandra Pizarnik (Buenos Aires, 1936–1972) quickly established herself as a major voice in twentieth-century Latin American poetry. Drawing on the work of the Surrealists, Pizarnik wrote seven ...