Book record
The Galloping Hour
Alejandra Pizarnik
Translated from French by Forrest Gander
The Galloping Hour, translated from the French by Forrest Gander, Patricio Ferrari, brings Alejandra Pizarnik's French-language work into English through New Directions. Published in 2018, it is best approached as a book of encounter rather than as a book to solve. Pizarnik’s French-language work carries the velocity of a mind trying to outrun its own shadow, yet the poems remain precise in their darkness. The pleasure of a book like this is the permission it gives to move slowly. A reader does not have to master every reference to feel the work at hand. Sometimes the task is simply to notice how a sentence leans, how an image opens, how a voice from Argentina changes the room around English.
- Published
- 2018
- Publisher
- New Directions
- Language
- French
- Country
- Argentina
- ISBN
- 9780811227742