Name: The Galloping Hour: French Poems
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Author: Pizarnik, Alejandra ; Ferrari, Patricio ; Gander, Forrest
ISBN: 9780811227742

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Physical Book

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Language

English

Pages

112

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780811227742

Synopsis "The Galloping Hour: French Poems "

A beautifully produced and exquisitely translated edition of French poems by “the best exponent of the poetry of introversion and metaphorical delirium” (Italo Calvino) The Galloping Hour: French Poems―never before rendered in English and unpublished during her lifetime―gathers for the first time all the poems that Alejandra Pizarnik (revered by Octavio Paz and Roberto Bolan~o) wrote in French.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 Rau´l 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.”

Alejandra Pizarnik

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Flora Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-1972) was an Argentine poet, essayist, and translator. She studied Philosophy and Literature at the University of Buenos Aires and received artistic training from the surrealist painter Juan Batlle Planas. Additionally, she studied the history of religions and French literature at the Sorbonne. During her time in Paris, between 1960 and 1964, she worked for the magazine Cuadernos and some French publishers, and formed significant friendships with Julio Cortazar and Octavio Paz. In 1969, she received a Guggenheim fellowship, and in 1971 a Fullbright. She took her own life in 1972 with an overdose of seconal. Pizarnik is considered the last cursed poet.

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