| Alejandra Pizarnik |
Alejandra Pizarnik: ‘I write against fear’
Fifty years after she took her own life at age 36, Argentina pays tribute to its legendary poet
Mar Centenera
Buenos Aires, September 26, 2022
On September 25, 1972, the great Argentine poet, Alejandra Pizarnik, committed suicide with an overdose of sedatives. At age 36 she threw herself into the arms of death, which she had observed for years with childish fascination and baptized with innumerable names.