Now It's Dark by Peter Gizzi (English) Paperback Book

Description: Now It's Dark by Peter Gizzi 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, "Gizzis poetry is an example of how a poets total tonal attention can disclose new orders of sensation and meaning. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description SOME JOY FOR MORNINGNow the connection with springhas dissolved. Now that hysteriais blooming.Says every day I want to fly my kite.Says whats a grammar when you is no longer you.My world is hydrogen burning in space and inthe fullness of etc. I have read the news andlearned nothing.I try to understand thewhooshing overhead. But for alittle light now.I didnt realize the treewas weeping. How was I toknow I am not alone. Wildlight.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, "Gizzis poetry is an example of how a poets 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 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 "The ethereal yet confident poems in this book deliver their satisfying reckoning without a hint of sentimentality."--Publishers Weekly"In the title poem of his eighth book, Now Its Dark, Peter Gizzi strikes a Tennysonian note that calls to mind both the tone and imagery of "In Memoriam A. H. H." "Sky opening into blank. / I thought grief is a form of grace." The poem proceeds through inflections confessional ("When my brother lost his voice I lost my childhood"), social ("I am overpowered by the gigantism / of commercial governing"), and existential ("I am an incident trapped in thick description), all the while maintaining a deceptive ease of expressiveness that belies the underground swell of disquiet, which marks the entire volume."--Albert Mobillio, Hyperallergic"This new poetry, taking such care of tem-perature--the time & details of the world--meaning the space(s) in which we live--defining love in this way. Writing along the edge. What I call MR/everydayMagicalRealism. A way of writing about hope."--Kamau Brathwaite, author of The Lazarus Poems"Gizzi is not a sentimental poet--not even close. His best poems exist on a different plane, as if he has achieved and is writing from a transcendent vantage most of us only strive forHe identifies the thing were all searching for in voices, in poems, in language, in songs; why we read and why we listen."--Amanda Petrsich, The New Yorker"Theres no ego in this writers work. Its one of the purest examples of truth told from an inside source, beautifully patterned on the page. Theres no training ground for such writing. Every page, every poem, is challenged with unpredictability and intensity."--Grace Cavalieri, Washington Independent Review of Books Review Quote "This new poetry, taking such care of tem-perature--the time & details of the world--meaning the space(s) in which we live--defining love in this way. Writing along the edge. What I call MR/everydayMagicalRealism. A way of writing about hope."--Kamau Brathwaite, author of The Lazarus Poems "Gizzi is not a sentimental poet--not even close. His best poems exist on a different plane, as if he has achieved and is writing from a transcendent vantage most of us only strive forHe identifies the thing were all searching for in voices, in poems, in language, in songs; why we read and why we listen."--Amanda Petrsich, The New Yorker "Theres no ego in this writers work. Its one of the purest examples of truth told from an inside source, beautifully patterned on the pageTheres no training ground for such writing. Every page, every poem, is challenged with unpredictability and intensity."--Grace Cavalieri, Washington Independent Details ISBN0819579874 Author Peter Gizzi Language English ISBN-10 0819579874 ISBN-13 9780819579874 Format Paperback Pages 136 Series Wesleyan Poetry Series Year 2021 Imprint Wesleyan University Press Place of Publication Hanover Country of Publication United States Publication Date 2021-05-15 UK Release Date 2021-05-15 AU Release Date 2021-05-15 NZ Release Date 2021-05-15 US Release Date 2021-05-15 Publisher Wesleyan University Press DEWEY 811.54 Audience Professional & Vocational 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:130790836;

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