"An aura of legendary prestige surrounds the work of Alejandra Pizarnik," writes Cesar 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.

About the Author
Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-1972) was born in Argentina and educated in Spanish and Yiddish. In addition to poetry, Pizarnik also wrote experimental works of theater and prose. She died of a deliberate drug overdose at the age of thirty-six. The poet Yvette Siegert has also translated The Reef by Juan Villoro and Alejandra Pizarnik's poetry collections A Musical Hell, Diana's Tree, and Extracting the Stone of Madness, for which she won the 2017 Best Translated Book Award.

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



Book Information
ISBN 9780811220965
Author Alejandra Pizarnik
Format Paperback
Page Count 48
Imprint New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publisher New Directions Publishing Corporation
Weight(grams) 114g
Dimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm * 8mm