Description
A new collection of poems from one of America's most vital and imaginative poets
The poems in this brilliant follow-up to the National Book Award finalist Archeophonics, are concerned with grieving, with poetry and death, with beauty and sadness, with light. As Ben Lerner has written, Gizzi's poetry is an example of how a poet's total tonal attention can disclose new orders of sensation and meaning. His beautiful lines are full of deft archival allusion. With litany, elegy, and prose, Gizzi continues his pursuit toward a lyric of reality. Saturated with luminous detail, these original poems possess, even in their sorrowing moments, a dizzying freedom.
Author: Peter Gizzi
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 12/08/2020
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 7.50h x 5.70w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9780819579874
ISBN10: 0819579874
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | General
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Death, Grief, Loss
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Family
The poems in this brilliant follow-up to the National Book Award finalist Archeophonics, are concerned with grieving, with poetry and death, with beauty and sadness, with light. As Ben Lerner has written, Gizzi's poetry is an example of how a poet's total tonal attention can disclose new orders of sensation and meaning. His beautiful lines are full of deft archival allusion. With litany, elegy, and prose, Gizzi continues his pursuit toward a lyric of reality. Saturated with luminous detail, these original poems possess, even in their sorrowing moments, a dizzying freedom.
Author: Peter Gizzi
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 12/08/2020
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 7.50h x 5.70w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9780819579874
ISBN10: 0819579874
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | General
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Death, Grief, Loss
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Family
About the Author
PETER GIZZI is the author of eight collections of poetry including Archeophonics, Threshold Songs, and In Defense of Nothing: Selected Poems, 1987-2011. He has also published several limited-edition chapbooks, folios, and artist books. He lives in Holyoke, MA.