Emigrant of herself: the poetic body of Alejandra Pizarnik

Abstract

Alejandra Pizarnik was a good poet until the end. In the minutes before her suicide, even seconds before her death and stop breathing, until the last of her hours in this world, Alejandra was a poet. Her death is poetic justice, the radical performance that puts an end to a search at the limit of life. Her suicide is the conquest of the longed-for and dreamed shadow. As the best performer, this poet conceived the body as the place of writing, the body as a poem itself and carnal story of the existence of the being, the body as the agonistic habitation of madness in a mixed whole: waking and dreaming, light and shadow, consciousness, being and not wanting to be, death and life. Stigmatized from madness and included in the catalog of cursed poets, she suffered from depression, delirium and psychosis.