Poetry
Works and Nights
Los trabajos y las noches
Alejandra Pizarnik · 1965
Synopsis
Mostly short poems, of a purer and more concentrated style than the first ones, according to Ángela Sofía Rivera Soriano. Rafael Felipe Rodríguez follows in it silence, language, night, death and solitude, and a voice that addresses a “tú”; the book opens with a text entitled “Poema”, and others bear titles such as “Encuentro”, “Amantes” or “Morada”. Several pieces speak of the poem itself and of the work of the one who writes it, which Rodríguez calls metapoetry.
Context
The collection appeared from Sudamericana in 1965, under a cover by Roberto Aizenberg, and received the first municipal poetry prize, according to the EFE agency. It is counted among the three major volumes published after her return from Paris; Rivera Soriano places it, with the book prefaced by Octavio Paz, in the second stage of her work. Jacques Ancet translated it into French in 2013; in English, it forms a section of Yvette Siegert's bilingual edition, published in 2015.
Who it is for
Short poems in Spanish, to be read one at a time; translated into French by Jacques Ancet, in a volume of its own.
Prizes and reception
Winner, in 1965, of the first poetry prize awarded by the city of Buenos Aires, according to EFE.
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