Research Catalog

Title

The most foreign country / Alejandra Pizarnik ; translated from the Spanish by Yvette Siegert ; introduction by Cole Heinowitz.

Author

Pizarnik, Alejandra, 1936-1972

Publication

• Brooklyn, New York: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2017.
• Berkeley, California : Small Press Distribution.
• Saline, Michigan : McNaughton & Gunn.
• ©2017

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Details

Additional Authors

• Siegert, Yvette
• Heinowitz, R. Cole
• Bogden, Katherine
• Ugly Duckling Presse publisher.
• McNaughton & Gunn, printer.
• Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

xiii, 39 pages; 21 cm

Summary

"First published in 1955 and now translated for the first time into English, The Most Foreign Country is Alejandra Pizarnik's debut collection. Here, the nineteen-year-old poet begins to explore the themes that will shape and define her vision: the solitude of the poetic self, the longing for artistic depth, and the tenuous nearness of death. By turns probing and playful, bold and difficult, Pizarnik's earliest poems teem with an exuberant desire "to grab hold of everything" and to create a language that tests the limits of origin, paradox, and death."--Publisher's website (viewed 01/30/2017).

Series Statement

Lost literature series ; #14

Uniform Title

• Tierra más ajen. English. 2017
• Lost literature series #14.
• Woodberry Poetry Room Blue Star collection of books and manuscripts.

Alternative Title

Tierra más ajen. 2017

Subject

Argentine poetry > 20th century > Translations into English

Genre/Form

• Argentine poetry – 20th century.
• Poems – 20th century.

Note

• Poems.
• Translation of La tierra más ajen (Buenos Aires : Ediciones Botella al Mar, 1955).

Language (note)

• In English, translated from the original Spanish.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

A passionate absence: the early work of (Flora) Alejandra Pizarnik / Cole Heinowitz ; The most foreign country : Days against illusion -- Smoke -- Reminiscences -- Luminous waters -- Colorless being -- Nemo -- Wandering through the gloom -- Engaging with the red shadow -- Night -- My forest -- A poem for my paper -- ...From my diary -- Memories of a palm reader -- Drawing -- Chess -- Common man -- I will continue -- An objective ticket -- I am... -- Daedalus Joyce -- Port ahead -- In the swamp ; A sign upon your shadow : Me leaving in a black boat -- Sky -- I am falling -- Only a love -- Beyond oblivion -- Distance.

ISBN

9781937027605

OCLC

• 970346941
• SCSB-11768425

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library