Alejandra Pizarnik and the Poetics of Radical Incarnation

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" Alejandra Pizarnik and the Poetics of Radical Incarnation "
Adam Glover

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1081872
Doc. No	:	LA125501
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15685292-02104003‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Adam Glover
Title & Author	:	Alejandra Pizarnik and the Poetics of Radical Incarnation [Article]\ Adam Glover
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Religion and the Arts
Date	:	2017
Volume/ Issue Number	:	21/4
Page No	:	514–544
Abstract	:	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.
Descriptor	:	Alejandra Pizarnik
Descriptor	:	incarnation
Descriptor	:	Latin America
Descriptor	:	poetics
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15685292-02104003‬