Peter Gizzi

Fierce Elegy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Peter Gizzi's powerful new collection reminds us that the elegy is lament but also - as it has been for centuries - a work of loveIn Peter Gizzi's powerful new collection, we find, in the poet's words, that "the elegy is a mode that can transform a broken heart in a fierce world into a fierce heart in a broken world."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wesleyan University Press
• Seitenzahl: 72
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 189mm x 138mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 112g
• ISBN-13: 9780819500687
• ISBN-10: 0819500682
• Artikelnr.: 67325541

Autorenporträt

Peter Gizzi is the author of many collections of poetry, including Now It's Dark (2020), Archeophonics (2016), a finalist for the National Book Award, Threshold Songs (2011), and In Defense of Nothing: Selected Poems, 1987-2011 (2014), a finalist for the LA Times Book Award. He has also published several limited-edition chapbooks, folios, and artist books. Marjorie Perloff has called him "a master of the mot juste and of sound structure;" Robert Creeley, "one of the most exceptional poets of his generation." Adrienne Rich has said "his disturbing lyricism is like no other;" and John Ashbery thought him "the most exciting new poet to come along in quite a while." He lives in Holyoke, MA.