Alejandra Pizarnik published 4 poetry collections and 2 other books. The best-known is Alejandra Pizarnik.
Updated September 2026
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Poetry in order
From the Forbidden Garden (2003)
Selected Poems (2010)
A Musical Hell (2013)
Extracting the Stone of Madness (2015)
Other books in order
Alejandra Pizarnik (1987)
Poesía Completa (2003)
About Alejandra Pizarnik
Flora Alejandra Pizarnik 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".
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