The most foreign country - Pizarnik, Alejandra, 1936-1972; Siegert, Yvette; Heinowitz, R. Cole; Bogden, Katherine; Ugly Duckling Presse; McNaughton & Gunn; Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). (Brooklyn, New York: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2017)
"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).
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.
Poems.
Translation of La tierra más ajen (Buenos Aires : Ediciones Botella al Mar, 1955).
"Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-1972) was a leading voice in twentieth-century Latin American poetry. Born in Avellaneda to Russian-Jewish immigrants, Pizarnik studied literature and painting at the University of Buenos Aires and spent most of her life in Argentina. In 1960, she moved to Paris, where she was influenced by the work of the Surrealists and participated in a vibrant expatriate community of writers that included Julio Cortázar and Octavio Paz. Known primarily for her poetry, Pizarnik also wrote experimental fiction, plays, a literary diary, and works of criticism. She died in Buenos Aires, of an apparent drug overdose, at the age of thirty-six."--Publisher's website (viewed 01/30/2017).
"Yvette Siegert is a poet and translator based in New York. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in 6x6, Aufgabe, Chelsea, Guernica, Stonecutter, St. Petersburg Review, The New Yorker and elsewhere. Recent translation projects include work by Alejandra Pizarnik, Alaíde Foppa, Andrés Pachón Arbeláez, Efraín Huerta and Ana Gorría. For her translations of Alejandra Pizarnik, published by New Directions and Ugly Duckling Presse, she has received recognition from the PEN American Center, the New York State Council for the Arts, the Ubersetzerhaus Looren, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She has edited for The New Yorker and currently teaches comparative literature and translation at Baruch College of the City University of New York."--Publisher's website (viewed 01/30/2017).
"Cole Heinowitz is the author of Daily Chimera (Incommunicado, 1995), Stunning in Muscle Hospital (Detour, 2002), The Rubicon (The Rest, 2008), and the critical study Spanish America and British Romanticism, 1777-1826: Rewriting Conquest (Edinburgh University Press, 2010). She is the translator of Mario Santiago Papasquiaro’s Advice from 1 disciple of Marx to 1 Heidegger fanatic (Wave, 2010) and Beauty is our spiritual Guernica (Commune Editions, 2015), and Selected Letters of Antonin Artaud (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs, 2014). Heinowitz is Associate Professor of Literature at Bard College."--Publisher's website (viewed 01/30/2017).
In English, translated from the original Spanish.
Keywords: Argentine poetry -- 20th century -- Translations into English; Argentine poetry -- 20th century; Poems -- 20th century