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Alejandra Pizarnik and the Poetics of Radical Incarnation

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Alejandra Pizarnik and the Poetics of Radical Incarnation

[Article]

Adam Glover

Leiden

Brill

Generally appreciated as one of the most original and creative voices in twentieth-century Latin American poetry, Alejandra Pizarnik (Argentina, 1936-1972) has not been regarded as a religious poet. Yet despite her explicit disavowal of all forms of religious commitment, Pizarnik's work is nonetheless animated by fundamentally theological concerns. This article examines in detail the theological motif of "incarnation" in Pizarnik's verse. It argues that, despite her avowed secularism, Pizarnik frames her own poetic project in explicitly incarnational language and that this theologically inflected vision underwrites her conception of poetic meaning-making. Generally appreciated as one of the most original and creative voices in twentieth-century Latin American poetry, Alejandra Pizarnik (Argentina, 1936-1972) has not been regarded as a religious poet. Yet despite her explicit disavowal of all forms of religious commitment, Pizarnik's work is nonetheless animated by fundamentally theological concerns. This article examines in detail the theological motif of "incarnation" in Pizarnik's verse. It argues that, despite her avowed secularism, Pizarnik frames her own poetic project in explicitly incarnational language and that this theologically inflected vision underwrites her conception of poetic meaning-making.

2017

514-544

Religion and the Arts

21/4

1568-5292

Alejandra Pizarnik

incarnation

Latin America

poetics

Adam Glover

10.1163/15685292-02104003

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