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Book SynopsisA beautifully produced and exquisitely translated edition of French poems by “the best exponent of the poetry of introversion and metaphorical delirium” (Italo Calvino)
Trade Review"To bear down on Pizarnik’s scant lines is to find their essential rigor: nothing is brittle, nothing breaks." -- Joshua Cohen - Harper's
"It is a privilege to read." -- Zack Anderson - Kenyon Review
"As this slender new collection demonstrates, Pizarnik’s commitment to poetry started early and consumed her life. Whether in Spanish or in French, in Buenos Aires or in Paris, her voice remains that of the eternal émigré who searched for a home but failed to find it. Pizarnik wrote the way she lived: in a state of restless longing." -- Nathan Scott McNamara - Poetry Foundation
"The late Argentine writer Pizarnik kindles a wildfire of rapturous desire amid a twilight landscape of irrecoverable love in these poems that were unpublished during her brief life....lustful, paralyzing, and contagious." -- Publishers Weekly (starred)
"To read Pizarnik is to inhabit her melancholic world, a world of recursive, enabling lines, where 'my language is the priestess.'" -- Nick Ripatrazone - The Millions
"Each of Pizarnik’s poems is the hub of an enormous wheel." -- Julio Cortázar
