A tradition of rupture
Subtitle: selected critical writings of Alejandra Pizarnik
By: translated by Cole Heinowitz
Contributors: Heinowitz, Cole, translator; Ugly Duckling Presse; McNaughton & Gunn
Edition: First edition, first printing.
Series: Lost literatue series -- #26; Lost literature series -- #26.
Publisher: Ugly Duckling Presse
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Brooklyn, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9781946433268
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Translations into English; Argentine essays
Work titles: Prosa completa
Description: "Since the publication of her 1955 debut poetry collection, The Most Foreign Country, Alejandra Pizarnik has captivated the imaginations of many of Latin America's most celebrated twentieth-century writers, from Octavio Paz and Julio Cortázar to Roberto Bolaño and Raúl Zurita. Over the last several years, the majority of Pizarnik's poetry has been translated into English, garnering enormous acclaim in the U.S. and abroad, yet her extraordinary critical writings--including commentaries on figures such as Artaud, Borges, Breton, Michaux, and Pessoa, as well as intimate accounts of her own working methods--remain almost entirely unknown outside the Spanish-speaking world. A Tradition of Rupture makes these writings available to English-speaking readers for the first time, offering indispensable insight into the range of Pizarnik's reading and the principle influences on her poetics. The works collected in this volume also provide a rare glimpse of the famously introverted poet in her capacity as public intellectual and critic, revealing a voracious intelligence turned outward toward the world in vital dialogue with the words of others."--supplied by publisher.
Notes: Translation of selections from Prosa completa (Barcelona : Lumen, 2012).

"First published in La Nación (Buenos Aires, November 26, 1966)--Page 156.

Edition of 900.

"Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-1972) was a leading voice in twentieth-century Latin American poetry. Born in the port city of Avellaneda, in the province of Buenos Aires, to Russian-Jewish immigrants, Pizarnik studied literature and painting at the University of Buenos Aires and spent most of her life in Argentina. From 1960-1964 she lived in Paris, where she was influenced by the work of the Surrealists (many of whom she translated into Spanish) and participated in a vibrant community of writers including Simone de Beauvoir and fellow expatriates Julio Cortázar and Octavio Paz. Known primarily for her poetry, Pizarnik also wrote works of criticism and journalism, experimental fiction, plays, and a literary diary. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1968 and a Fulbright Scholarship in 1971. Her complete works in Spanish have been published by Editorial Lumen. Six books of her poetry have been translated into English: Diana's Tree, The Most Foreign Country and The Last Innocence / The Lost Adventures (Ugly Duckling Presse); and A Musical Hell, Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962-1972, and The Galloping Hour: French Poems (New Directions). A Tradition of Rupture (UDP), a collection of Pizarnik's critical prose in English translation, was published in fall 2019. She died in Buenos Aires, of an apparent drug overdose, at the age of 36."--supplied by publisher.

"Cole Heinowitz is a poet, translator, and scholar based in New York. Her books of poetry include The Rubicon (The Rest), Stunning in Muscle Hospital (Detour), and Daily Chimera (Incommunicado). She is the translator of Mario Santiago Papasquiaro's Advice from 1 Disciple of Marx to 1 Heidegger Fanatic (Wave Books) and Beauty Is Our Spiritual Guernica (Commune Editions), and the co-translator of The Selected Late Letters of Antonin Artaud (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs). She is the author of the monograph, Spanish America and British Romanticism, 1777-1826: Rewriting Conquest (Edinburgh University Press, 2010), and is Associate Professor of Literature and Director of the Literature Program at Bard College. Heinowitz's translation of Mario Santiago Papasquiaro's Bleeding From All 5 Senses was awarded the 2019 Cliff Becker Book Prize in Translation."--supplied by publisher.

In English, translated from the original Spanish by Cole Heinowitz.
Table of contents: title: Translator's Note / -- Cole Heinowitz ; -- A Note on Sources -- I. Prologues & Interviews :; title: Prologues for an anthology of young Argentine poets --; title: Attempt at a prologue in their style, not mine --; title: Notes for an interview --; title: Interview for El Pueblo, Cordoba (April 17, 1967) --; title: 8 Questions for women writers, actors, scientists, artists, social workers, and journalists --; title: Some keys to Alejandra Pizarnik ; -- II. Essays & Articles :; title: Humor and poetry in Julio Cortázar's Cronopios and Famas --; title: Various accounts of South American events, people, and things (Sixteenth-Century Texts) --; title: Silences in motion --; title: Alberto Girri's The eye --; title: A Ricardo Molinari anthology --; title: A Difficult Balance: Zona Franca --; title: Re-Reading Breton's Nadja --; title: Andre Pieyre De Mandiargues's The motorcycle --; title: Note on Julio Cortázar's "The Ocher Heaven" --; title: The incarnate word --; title: Michaux's Passages --; title: Illicit domains --; title: Wise men and poets --; title: The Humor of Borges and Bioy Casares --; title: A tradition of rupture ;-- Commentaries ;-- A Note on the design.