Extracting the Stone of MadnessAlejandra Pizarnik, translated by Yvette Siegert Revered by Octavio Paz and Roberto Bolao, Alejandra Pizarnik is still a hidden treasure in the U. S. Extracting the Stone of Madness comprises all of her middle to late work, as well as a selection of posthumously published verse. Obsessed with themes of solitude, childhood, madness, and death, Pizarnik explored the shifting valences of the self and the border between speech and silence. In her own