A Musical Hell

Alejandra Pizarnik author Yvette Siegert translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:New Directions Publishing Corporation

Published:23rd Aug '13

Should be back in stock very soon

A Musical Hell cover

"An aura of legendary prestige surrounds the work of Alejandra Pizarnik," writes César Aira. Her last collection to be published before her suicide in 1972, A Musical Hell is the first book of poems by Pizarnik to be published in its entirety in the U.S. Pizarnik writes at the edge of poetic impossibility, opening with a blues singer, expanding into silence, and closing into a theater of shadows and songs of the drowned.

"Translated by Yvette Siegert, this collection recalls a collusion of whimsy and gravitas apparent in Cortázar’s work while simultaneously presenting the poet’s own unique lyric sensibility." -- Erica Wright - Guernica

ISBN: 9780811220965

Dimensions: 226mm x 152mm x 8mm

Weight: 114g

48 pages