Read By: Ada Limón

<p><em>Ada Limón on her selection:</em></p> <p>I chose to read poems by Alejandra Pizarnik, from her book <em>Extracting the Stone of Madness</em>, translated by Yvette Siegert, who has done a marvelous job. I believe Pizarnik, an Argentinian author who died in 1972 at the young age of thirty-six, is largely not well-known in the United States—I highly recommend looking her up and spending time with her. During this pandemic, I have found a lot of grace—and despair—in her poems. I find them very helpful, and very beautiful.</p> <p><a href= "https://bookshop.org/books/extracting-the-stone-of-madness-poems-1962-1972/9780811223966?aid=609"> <em>Extracting the Stone of Madness</em></a> at Bookshop.org</p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Music: "Shift of Currents" by Blue Dot Sessions // CC BY-NC 2.0</span></p>