Silk Poems, in its small, delicate package, is monumental in scope, in its place as one part of Jen…

Neat encapsulation of a book’s central concept or conceit serves every genre well save poetry. The…

The unnerving creaking of the wooden floor turns to a warm stripe of sun on the same floor.

First published in 1955 when Pizarnik was 19, she was later to renounce the book, which remained…