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In this installment of Lyric Nation, Peter Gizzi reads “On What Became of Mathew Brady’s Battle Photographs,” first published in the January 4, 2007 issue of The Nation and included in The Outernationale (Wesleyan); and “Lullaby,” “Eclogues,” “True Discourse on Power” and “Oversong,” all of which will appear in Threshold Songs, forthcoming from Wesleyan. These poems were recorded by Peter Gizzi.
Peter GizziPeter Gizzi grew up in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. His poetry collections include The Outernationale (2007), Some Values of Landscape and Weather (2003), and a reprint of his first book, Periplum and Other Poems: 1987-1992 (2004). His honors include the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets in 2004 and a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation in 2005. He is also the editor of The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer (1998).