Alejandra Pizarnik Quotes


Because no one has more thirst for earth, for blood, and for ferocious sexuality than the creatures who inhabit cold mirrors


Citations

Pizarnik, Alejandra. La condesa sangrienta. López Crespo Editores, 1971.

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Alejandra Pizarnik
Alejandra Pizarnik
  • Born: April 29, 1936
  • Died: September 25, 1972
  • Nationality: Argentinian
  • Profession: Poet

Alejandra Pizarnik was an Argentine poet. Her idiosyncratic and thematically introspective poetry has been considered "one of the most unusual bodies of work in Latin American literature", and has been recognized and celebrated for its fixation on "the limitation of language, silence, the body, night, the nature of intimacy, madness, [and] death".