The author of "The Naming of the Night" is Alejandna Pizarnik.
"The Naming of Night" is a book written by Argentinian writer Alejandna Pizarnik, translated by Wang Tianai, and published by Writers Publishing House. "The Naming Technique of Night: A Collection of Pizarnik's Poems" is translated from the original Spanish version of "The Complete Poems of Pizarnik" and includes all of Pizarnik's poems published under the signature of "Alejandna Pizarnik" during his lifetime.
Its six single volumes of poetry are divided into sections: "The Last Innocence" (1956), "The Failed Adventure" (1958), "The Tree of Diana" (1962), "Work and Night" (1965), "Take Out the Crazy Stone" (1968) and "Musical Hell" (1971).
The author of The Nomenclature of the Night
This is the first complete translation in the Chinese context of this one of the most legendary and charming female poets in the Spanish-speaking world. At the same time, this collection of poems covering Pizarnik's life's work also aspires to transcend the myth of the "cursed suicide poet" and show the arduous labor involved: her poetry is a tall building built with wisdom and patience, built with a lot of reading He adopts a firm critical and escaping tradition of writing and vision.
Pizarnik’s life is a story of passion, fueled by poetry. Throughout her life, she kept hitting the wall called "poetry", and almost all of her works contained a will and effort to purify, refine, and move closer to the center. She has been writing poems around her inner shadow since the beginning of her creative career, burning out the voice of the Valkyrie with an undeniable and unparalleled intensity of life.
Write poems that are "terrifyingly accurate". Between literature and life, she chose the former. In the end, in this protracted struggle, she gave up on saving herself.
Find at all costs the essence of poetry naming the ineffable in words. All her efforts consist in seeing poetry as the sole reason for existence. She wanted to be a complete and absolute poet, without any cracks or wounds. In a way, she achieved the perfection she wanted, and The Nomenclature of Night: A Collection of Pizarnik Poems aims to present that perfection.