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Frank Aguilera's avatar

Reading Alejandra Pizarnik provides us a glimpse into her uneasiness with life. While others seem to wish to live to the full, she's obsessed with rushing to the end by means of a poetic drive turned into a ritualistic exercise. Her poetry is a beautiful and stark vision of death.

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Catherine Wallace's avatar

"Uneasiness with life" is well said.

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Jackie Lois's avatar

Really like the title… “Desire for the word”. Longing… golden writing prompt…

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Another  80‘s Angel。's avatar

These always hit at the right time.

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Rolando Andrade's avatar

She is one of my favorite poets. Every word she wrote is a work of art

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Angela Hanchett's avatar

Beautiful 🔥

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Maha's avatar

Oh yes it is, “the ceremony of living!” ALL of it.

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Sandra Murzin's avatar

Thank you for sharing this...I had been thinking about Alejandra's poems lately,then last Monday came across "Extracting the Stone of Madness:Poems 1962-1972" at my library bookstore for $1.00...made my month.So sad she left us ,she was so young...but what powerful writing...

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David Picariello's avatar

Alejandra Pizarnik..always inspirational. davpi3.14

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David Picariello's avatar

Alejandra Pizarnik..always inspirational. davpi3.14

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Leon Brown, Jr.'s avatar

Brilliant. Beautiful.

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Grace Zacaroli's avatar

I so love these phrases/lines: "... heir to every forbidden garden," and "... I have wasted my gift for transfiguring exiles. (I can feel their breathing inside the walls.)..."

And the final line - shaping the body of the poem with her own "in this ceremony of living."

Just so powerful. Is she rushing to the end or staring death in the eye and defying its every limit?

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