Los trabajos y las noches
1965
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4.17
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Imposible reducir la poesía de Alejandra Pizarnik a un esquema sus versos desarman todo intento de explicación. Poesía difícil -severa en la elección de sus adeptos-, pero clara. Porque claridad con que vean sus imágenes depende su poder.
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Author
Alejandra Pizarnik
Author · 19 books
Born in Buenos Aires to Russian parents who had fled Europe and the Nazi Holocaust, Alejandra Pizarnik was destined for literary greatness as well as an early death. She died from an ostensibly self-administered overdose of barbiturates on 25 September 1972. A few words scribbled on a slate that same month, reiterating her desire to go nowhere "but to the bottom," sum up her lifelong aspiration as a human being and as a writer. The compulsion to head for the "bottom" or "abyss" points to her desire to surrender to nothingness in an ultimate experience of ecstasy and poetic fulfillment in which life and art would be fused, albeit at her own risk. "Ojalá pudiera vivir solamente en éxtasis, haciendo el cuerpo del poema con mi cuerpo" (If I could only live in nothing but ecstasy, making the body of the poem with my body).
