The Galloping Hour

“To bear down on Pizarnik’s scant lines is to find their essential rigor: nothingis brittle, nothing breaks.” – Joshua Cohen - Harper’s“It is a privilege to read.” – Zack Anderson - Kenyon Review“As this slender new collection demonstrates, Pizarnik’s commitment to poetry started early and consumed her life. Whether in Spanish or in French, in Buenos Aires or in Paris, her voice remains that of the eternal émigré who searched for a home but failed to find it. Pizarnik wrote the way she lived: in a state of restless longing.” – Nathan Scott McNamara - From Paris, with Love and Terror - Poetry Foundation“The late Argentine writer Pizarnik kindles a wildfire of rapturous desire amid a twilight landscape of irrecoverable love in these poems that were unpublished during her brief life….lustful, paralyzing, and contagious.” – Publishers Weekly (starred)“To read Pizarnik is to inhabit her melancholic world, a world of recursive, enabling lines, where ‘my language is the priestess.’” – Nick Ripatrazone - The Millions“Each of Pizarnik’s poems is the hub of an enormous wheel.” – Julio Cortázar

Alejandra Pizarnik (1936–1972) was born in Argentina and educated in Spanish and Yiddish. In addition to poetry, Pizarnik also wrote experimental works of theater and prose. She died of a deliberate drug overdose at the age of thirty-six.

Patricio Ferrari is a poet, translator, and editor. He has translated the works of Fernando Pessoa and Alejandra Pizarnik, among others.

Forrest Gander was born in the Mojave Desert and lives in California. He taught at Harvard University and Brown University. Gander is a translator and the author of many books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. He has received a Pulitzer Prize, the Best Translated Book Award, and fellowships from the Library of Congress, the Guggenheim, Whiting, and United States Artists Foundations.