Reviews

Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972 by Alejandra Pizarnik

airamseesghosts's review

dark emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.0

emsemsems's review against another edition

5.0

'Ambushed in my writing
you are singing in my poem.
Captive of your sweet voice
engraved in my memory.
Bird intent on its flight.
Air tattooed by an absence.
Clock that keeps time with me
so I never wake up.'

Someone I hold dearly, but haven't spoken to or seen in a while had given me a copy of Pizarnik's poems on my birthday a few years ago and I haven't read it until very recently. Alejandra Pizarnik is brilliant, and her work, glorious (to say the least).

marigolds_and_lavander's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.0

ausma23's review

5.0

incredible. devastating. i’m speechless.

ruins's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad

4.75

obsessioncollector's review

4.0

HOLY SHIT
I didn't care for the first section but so much of this is absolutely brilliant.

vnbcs's review

challenging dark emotional reflective

5.0

jenna0010's review

4.0

About the ways our self sections off, detaches itself, crumbles away, fragile and precarious. About loneliness and trying to find cohesion and resisting cohesion and sadness. About losing and trembling and reaching for the night.

Gosh. Nice stuff.

femto's review

2.0

MMM, empece a leer este libro por unas frases que encontré en Internet, y me da la impresión que mi traducción que conseguí no es tan buena, mas adelante le daré otra oportunidad en ingles.
No creo tener nada mas que decir.

joyride's review

4.0

An incredible collection by an author I had never heard of before CPLT class.
Some lines took my breath away.
Stuffy with melancholy and darkness and gorgeous prose.