Extracting the Stone of MadnessAlejandra Pizarnik, translated by Yvette Siegert Revered by Octavio Paz and Roberto Bolao, Alejandra Pizarnik is still a hidden treasure in the U. S. Extracting the Stone of Madness comprises all of her middle to late work, as well as a selection of posthumously published verse. Obsessed with themes of solitude, childhood, madness, and death, Pizarnik explored the shifting valences of the self and the border between speech and silence. In her own

some of you will follow me

Their troubles become lyric

Wolf’s debut collection won the Peter Huchel Prize in 2006—she was its youngest recipient

providing a space for critics

I’ll keep reading her

most marvellous is Joyce Mansour's canny adaptation of the Surrealist impulse towards revolt to subversively femme ends

' – Fred Moten

child and mother

maar zo ongecompliceerd is dat begin maar zelden

and moves on with it

evenzovele vensters op een veranderend

Een van de redenen dat het comité haar aanstelde was vanwege haar ‘aansprekende strijdvaardigheid’