Fierce Elegy by Peter Gizzi Paperback Book

Description: Fierce Elegy by Peter Gizzi Peter Gizzis powerful new collection reminds us that the elegy is lament but also - as it has been for centuries - a work of loveIn Peter Gizzis powerful new collection, we find, in the poets 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." FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Peter Gizzis powerful new collection reminds us that the elegy is lament but also - as it has been for centuries - a work of loveIn Peter Gizzis powerful new collection, we find, in the poets 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." For Gizzi, ferocity can be reimagined as vulnerability, bravery and discovery, a braiding of emotional and otherworldly depth, "a holding open." In Gizzis voice joy and sorrow make a complex ecosystem. One of our foremost practitioners of the lyric, Gizzi here extends his mastery of the form. In their quest for a lyric reality, these poems remind us that elegy is lament but also - as it has been for centuries - a mode of love poetry as well. "This new poetry," Kamau Brathwaite has written about Gizzi, "taking such care of temperature - the time & details of the world - meaning the space(s) in which we live - defining love in this way. Writing along the edge. A way of writing about hope."[sample poem]Creely Songall that is lovelyin words, evenif gone to piecesall that is lovelygone, all of itfor love andautobiographyas if I werewriting thishello, listenthe plan isthe body andall of it for lovenow in piecesall that is lovelyechoes stillin life & deathstill memorygardens openonto windowslovely, the charmthat mirrorsall that was, allthat is, lovelyin a song Author Biography PETER GIZZI is the author of six collections of poetry including Threshold Songs and In Defense of Nothing. He works at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Review "In Peter Gizzis Fierce Elegy, poems on ferocious heartbrokenness also attest to joy."--Library Journal"I know of no better companion to word our common lament for us, with us, than Gizzis new Fierce Elegy. For those of us devoted already to his work, well find here the fullest condensation of his powers I know -- poems of fearless questioning, muse-bruised, words with "a hunger / for real things," and the real things that hunger right back. For those who dont know his work, youll discover one of this nations foremost practitioners of lyric art, refusing that the poem should do anything less than posit one human life in actual relation with the world entire. His life, your life, mine -- such are the fierce demands of love in a world where all one loves also leaves."--Dan Beachy-Quick, Westword"Gizzi is a master of the elegiac mode His subject isnt loss alone, but loss interwoven with afterlife. Shadows, reflections, mirrors, and migrating birds populate his poems, and he weaves one state of consciousness into another, like gossamer Fierce Elegy is lyrical and transcendent. It is also fierce in the sense that overcoming the broken world is the ultimate act of defiance."--Amanda Holmes Duffy, Washington Independent Review"With his last several collections, Peter Gizzi has distinguished himself as one of Americas finest living poets. In his latest book, Fierce Elegy, we find the poet writing at the height of his powers."--James OConner, Harvard Review"Lyrics of resignation are juxtaposed with ecstatic lines that reimagine silence as conversations with the dead. Spare and raked of impurities, these poems reside in an airy purgatory of the soul... In its beautiful, fiery insistence this collection redeclares the elegy as the undying practice of the living."--Oluwaseun Olayiwola, The Guardian"In his latest book, we recognize Gizzis distinctive voice, but its melancholy is even more intensified, now almost black as ink. We might call it lyric after catastrophe: the world has suffered blows, shocks, accidents, and destructions and things are no better for things, which are often as not broken, undone, burned, or ruined, language marching into empire / starving the words. What remains now are no more than the ruins of anything. And yet the book is a necessary reminder to continue to live, perhaps to love, and certainly to die."--Stéphane Bouquet, Chicago Review"For Gizzi, silence lives inside the poems, its words charged by it just as, for Gerard Manley Hopkins, the world is charged with the grandeur of God. Fierce Elegy anneals its phrases to the clotted silences that surround them, so that rather than a continuous utterance, Gizzis rhythms are those of words teased, wrested, chiseled, and siphoned out of the darkness, with all of the nuances of sound those operations imply. Fierce Elegy differs equally from elegies that establish strong ties to a tradition (e.g., Milton) and from those that imagine themselves as wholly anti-elegy (e.g., Plath and Ginsberg). It omits not only proper names but dead addressees altogether, and the affect set in most salient contrast to sadness is actually ecstasy."--John Steen, The Poetry Project Newsletter"These poems are assertions of a spiritual excess that wont die."--Fanny Howe, author of Love and I"Having read Peter Gizzis work through the immense and singular wingspan his books make, I am still awestruck and dumbfounded as to how these poems are made. This book believes in language. It also offers it the utmost reverence: by lowering it to human height, where the living are. What a masterwork of deft maneuvering within the dynamo Gizzi has made of the lyric."--Ocean Vuong, author of Time is a Mother"The title says this collection is one poem, and it is, with its repeated vocabulary, shades-of-winter mood, and virtuoso singing. Amazing single poems. The elegy keeps naming itself, enjoying its form. So you can love it."--Alice Notley, author of The Descent of Alette"These poems are elegies. Or these poems are about being torn apart and floating free. They come from an old place where grief overlaps with beauty. Gizzi is a poet of disembodied brightness. Reading Gizzi is almost like having a near death experience, you know those accounts from people who have nearly died and who say they left their bodies, looked down on them from above, and everything was fine, better than fine. Gizzis writing invokes and produces something like that, a near religious ecstasy, but one with no God in sight. Its as if he has learned to give up control and still find perfect balance riding whatever carries his voice. If anyone tells you the lyric is dead, give them Peter Gizzi."--Rae Armantrout, author of Finalists Details ISBN0819500682 Author Peter Gizzi Pages 72 Publisher Wesleyan University Press Series Wesleyan Poetry Series ISBN-13 9780819500687 Format Paperback Imprint Wesleyan University Press Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2023-08-08 NZ Release Date 2023-08-08 UK Release Date 2023-08-08 ISBN-10 0819500682 DEWEY 811.54 Audience Professional & Vocational Year 2024 Publication Date 2024-02-02 US Release Date 2024-02-02 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:144542227;

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