Extracting the Stone of Madness Ennio Moltedo Giving close attention to the

Giving close attention to the well-known poem

experimental book of poems and collages that celebrates the sounds and imagery of letters and words as they emerge into meaning

there is yet something about Dobran’s clear-eyed view out onto the actual existing world that bestows a kind of proleptic clarity on the Skinner box of the present: the poetic defamiliarization at play is not the techno-stunned alienation of modernism but something older and more stoic

queer voice grappling with the intricacies of (un)belonging and identity

the appearance of parables: mountains

Extracting the Stone of Madness Ennio Moltedo Giving close attention to theAlejandra 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