An aura of legendary prestige surrounds the work of Alejandra Pizarnik,
writes César Aira. Her last collection to be published before her
suicide in 1972, A Musical Hell is the first book of poems by Pizarnik
to be published in its entirety in the U.S. Pizarnik writes at the edge
of poetic impossibility, opening with a blues singer, expanding into
silence, and closing into a theater of shadows and songs of the drowned.