Reverb Reverb
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
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