Alejandra Pizarnik

Born

1936-04-29

Died

1972-09-25

Birthplace

Avellaneda, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Biography

Flora Alejandra Pizarnik (29 April 1936 – 25 September 1972) was an Argentine poet. Her idiosyncratic and thematically introspective poetry has been considered "one of the most unusual bodies of work in Latin American literature", and has been recognized and celebrated for its fixation on "the limitation of language, silence, the body, night, the nature of intimacy, madness, [and] death".