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Fierce Elegy (Wesleyan Poetry Series) - 9780819500687
Wesleyan University Press
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9780819500687
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Peter Gizzi's powerful new collection reminds us that the elegy is lament but alsoas it has been for centuriesa work of love Peter Gizzi has said that "the elegy is a mode that can transform a broken heart in a fierce world into a fierce heart in a broken world." For Gizzi, ferocity can be reimagined as vulnerability, bravery and discovery, a braiding of emotional and otherworldly depth, "a holding open." In Gizzi's voice joy and sorrow make a complex ecosystem. In their quest for a lyric reality, these poems remind us that elegy is lament but alsoas it has been for centuriesa work of love. "This new poetry," Kamau Brathwaite has written about Gizzi, "taking such care of temperaturethe time & details of the worldmeaning the space(s) in which we livedefining love in this way. Writing along the edge. A way of writing about hope." [sample poem] Creely Song all that is lovely in words, even if gone to pieces all that is lovely gone, all of it for love and autobiography as if I were writing this hello, listen the plan is the body and all of it for love now in pieces all that is lovely echoes still in life & death still memory gardens open onto windows lovely, the charm that mirrors all that was, all that is, lovely in a song
- | Author: Peter Gizzi
- | Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
- | Publication Date: Aug 08, 2023
- | Number of Pages: 72 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 0819500682
- | ISBN-13: 9780819500687
- Author:
- Peter Gizzi
- Publisher:
- Wesleyan University Press
- Publication Date:
- Aug 08, 2023
- Number of pages:
- 72 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 0819500682
- ISBN-13:
- 9780819500687