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Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962–1972 by Alejandra Pizarnik

"Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962–1972 compiles the mature, unflinching work of Argentine poet Alejandra Pizarnik, capturing a decade of radical poetic compression, psychological intensity, and stylistic evolution through translations by Yvette Siegert. Introduction to Alejandra Pizarnik and the 1962–1972 Decade Alejandra Pizarnik remains one of the most singular and haunting voices in twentieth-century Latin American poetry. Born in Avellaneda, Argentina, in 1936 to Jewish-Russian immigrant parents, her literary trajectory was defined by a profound sense of linguistic displacement, existential isolation, and a relentless interrogat..."

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