The Galloping Hour by Alejandra Pizarnik and translated by Forrest Gander, Patricio Ferrari

This is poetry from Argentina.

The Galloping Hour by Alejandra Pizarnik translated by Forrest Gander, Patricio Ferrari is published by New Directions. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2018.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780811227742E12.

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.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

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