Peter Gizzi

Peter 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).

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I hate how syntax connects me to shit, or say the day is jeweled and burning, the fires banking, and none of its letters produce the horror at the heart of the index. The old docum…

May 19, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Peter Gizzi

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These lost stars tomorrow will they be there when we wake in our sorrow, is it us so lost in the moment, is it today we look to flower If it were because the time we saw and…

May 19, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Peter Gizzi

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Google Earth…

May 19, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Peter Gizzi

Undersong Undersong

When the bottom drops out of August   when the bottom drops and the summer disc burns deep in its bed   when nerves sing, blaze, and flame their circuit   when the bottom of August sticks out   and clouds above change shape   when bodies inside spin and change shape   the bottom falls and meaning peeks out with chagrin   the hot skin of August no longer sending messages of summer   birds no longer at rest   when the winds pick up and the cool air is just behind it all   the bottom of the news story reveals itself   the story is cold

Aug 22, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Peter Gizzi

Five Poems by Peter Gizzi Five Poems by Peter Gizzi

"On What Became of Mathew Brady's Battle Photographs," "Lullaby," "Eclogues," "True Discourse on Power," "Oversong"

Mar 28, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Peter Gizzi

Letters Letters

'Ebony and Ivory'? Laguna Woods, Calif.

Feb 7, 2008 / Stuart Klawans, Our Readers, and Peter Gizzi

On What Became of Mathew Brady’s Battle Photographs On What Became of Mathew Brady’s Battle Photographs

Sunlight and plant light glass and stain the campaign the conflict the dead frozen in air the sun and the sweat the swell of fetid flesh

Jan 4, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Peter Gizzi

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