Exchanging Lives Poems and Translations

Alejandra Pizarnik was born in Buenos Aires in 1936, of a lost Russian-Jewish ancestry. Her work is confessional, oblique, dense. Her fantasies were dark, of blood and knives. She wrote of being 'a few steps away from the eternity of silence' and took her own life in 1972 Susan Bassnett is Professor of Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. Her fantasies 'were of secret sexual encounters and having the strength to break through bars'. Her poems have appeared in Babel, Start, Sheaf, Writing Women, Signs, The Literary Review and the Virago Book of Love PoetryBassnett, Susan is the author of 'Exchanging Lives Poems and Translations' with ISBN 9781900715669 and ISBN 190071566X.