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Peter Gizzi Periplum and other poems 1987-1992
Search for a word or phrase in this book … Biographical note: Peter Gizzi grew up in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. His poetry collections include Artificial Heart (Burning Deck, 1998) and Some Values of Landscape and Weather (Wesleyan, 2003). In 1994 he received the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets. He is also the editor of The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer (Wesleyan, 1998). He teaches at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. BIC Basic EAN13: 9781844710737 ISBN-10: 1844710734 ISBN-13: 9781844710737 Author: Peter Gizzi Title: Periplum and other poems Series: Salt Modern Poets Product class: BC Language: eng Audience: General/trade BIC subject category: CTCH1 Publisher: Salt Publishing Pub date: 01-Sep-04 Extent: 140pp Height: 216 mm Width: 140 mm Thickness: 8 mm Weight: 210 gms Supplier: Gardners Books Supplier: Ingram Book Group Supplier: Inbooks (James Bennett) Availability: IP Price: GBP 10.99 Price: USD 16.95 Rights: World	See larger image PAPERBACK 20% off at the UK Bookstore! ~~£10.99~~ £8.79 20% off at the US Bookstore! ~~$16.95~~ $13.56	Short description/annotation: Periplum and other poems brings together Peter Gizzi’s celebrated and influential first book, out of print for nearly a decade, with 60 pages of early and uncollected work, including the long poem “Music for Films.” This new edition functions as a collected poems of Gizzi’s work from 1987 to 1992. Main description: Periplum and other poems brings together Peter Gizzi’s celebrated and influential first book, out of print for nearly a decade, with 60 pages of early and uncollected work, including the long poem “Music for Films.” This new edition functions as a collected poems of Gizzi’s work from 1987 to 1992. John Ashbery hailed Gizzi as “the most exciting poet to come along in quite a while.” The vibrancy and immediacy of Gizzi’s poems constitute 21st-century lyricism at its best, a richly complex music engaged with the crucial questions of and around contemporary culture. Michael Boughn wrote in the Poetry Project Newsletter that “Periplum reveals and shatters an unspeakably fragile world … emerging with a new knowing, a knowing that matters, as in matters of life and death.” His poems achieve a delicate balance of emotional and intellectual richness and the sense of poetry itself as a primary ground of human experience. Table of contents: I. PERIPLUM Song of the Interior Begin Mahler’s 2nd Mise en Scène Periplum The Locket News at Eleven Hierophant The Creation The Locket Periplum II Life Continues Conceit Song of the Comparative Night The Locket Periplum III The Locket Hubris Song of a Lexicon Periplum IV Blue Peter A.K.A. Song of the Liver The Locket Periplum V The Locket Nocturne Song: I Lost My Pail Periplum VI Despite Your Notices Capital Song of the Den Deus ex Machina Song of an Acute Angle The Locket Periplum VII (a valentine) A.K.A. Hard as Ash II. MUSIC FOR FILMS Music for Films III. OTHER POEMS Hours of the Book Nostos: Pro Patria Thirty Sentences for No One Psalm Poem for John Wieners Postcard: I Hear America Singing Façades for Theron Ware Often I am Allowed These Messages Dear Jack Asserted Abundance Still Life with Automobile A Speaking Part View excerpt as PDF: Click here to view a sample (60 KB) Excerpt from book: Poem for John Wieners I am not a poet because I live in the actual world where fear divides light I have no protection against the real evils and money which is the world where most lives are spent I am not a poet because I cannot sing about lost kingdoms of righteousness instead I see a woman in a blue parka crying on the street today without hope from despair I am not a poet for there is nothing I can say in smart turns to deflect oncoming blows of every day’s inexistence that creeps into the contemporary horizon I am not a poet but a witness to bear the empty space that becomes our hearts if left to loiter or linger without a life to share I’ve seen sorrow on joy street and heard the blur of the hurdy–gurdy and I too know what evening means but this is not real—poetry is and from this have I partaken as my eyes grow into the evolved dark Review quote: Periplum reveals and shatters an unspeakably fragile world … emerging with a new knowing, a knowing that matters, as in matters of life and death. Michael Boughn Poetry Project Newsletter Review quote: The reader must […] be alert, but give this book a couple of hours – the amount of time you might give the kind of art cinema it recalls (the middle section is titled “Music for Films”) – and Periplum's odd angles take satisfying shape. Jeremy Noel-todd The Telegraph Review quote: Peter Gizzi’s Periplum arises out of the same tradition as Frank O’Hara’s: suffused in irony, creating odd juxtapositions, alternatingly enigmatic and direct. D. A. Powell San Fransisco Poetry Flash Review quote: The beautiful fragile balance achieved here is simply amazing. Chris Stroffolino To Magazine Review quote: Never mind about the bewilderment. One should be more concerned with the acts of intelligence. Peter Gizzi’s poetry says this all the time. Not that one would (or could) paraphrase any of the poems as such, but that’s what the entire enterprise is based upon. That’s what one has to remember. We forget it, I think, at our peril. Martin Stannard Litter Magazine