The Galloping Hour: French Poems - never before rendered in English and unpublished during her lifetime - gathers for the first time all the poems that Alejandra Pizarnik (revered by Octavio Paz and Roberto Bolano) wrote in French. Conceived during her Paris sojourn (1960-1964) and in Buenos Aires (1970-1971) near the end of her tragically short life, these poems explore many of Pizarnik's deepest obsessions: the limitation of language, silence, the body, night, sex, and the nature of intimacy. Drawing from personal life experiences and echoing readings of some of her beloved/accursed French authors - Charles Baudelaire, Germain Nouveau, Arthur Rimbaud, and Antonin Artaud - this collection includes prose poems that Pizarnik would later translate into Spanish. Pizarnik's work led Raul Zurita to note: Her poetry - with a clarity that becomes piercing - illuminates the abysses of emotional sensitivity, desire, and absence. It presses against our lives and touches the most exposed, fragile, and numb parts of humanity." " | The Galloping Hour by Alejandra Pizarnik, Paperback | Indigo Chapters