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Now It's Dark
By Peter Gizzi
The poems in this brilliant follow-up to the National Book Award finalist Archeophonics, are concerned with grieving, with poetry and death, with beauty and sadness, with light. As Ben Lerner has written, "Gizzi's poetry is an example of how a poet's total tonal attention can disclose new orders of sensation and meaning. His beautiful lines are full of deft archival allusion." With litany, elegy, and prose, Gizzi continues his pursuit toward a lyric of reality. Saturated with luminous detail, these original poems possess, even in their sorrowing moments, a dizzying freedom.
About the Author
PETER GIZZI is the author of eight collections of poetry including Archeophonics, Threshold Songs, and In Defense of Nothing: Selected Poems, 1987–2011. He has also published several limited-edition chapbooks, folios, and artist books. He lives in Holyoke, MA.
Reviews
"The ethereal yet confident poems in this book deliver their satisfying reckoning without a hint of sentimentality."—Publishers Weekly
"In the title poem of his eighth book, Now It's Dark, Peter Gizzi strikes a Tennysonian note that calls to mind both the tone and imagery of "In Memoriam A. H. H.": "Sky opening into blank. / I thought grief is a form of grace." The poem proceeds through inflections confessional ("When my brother lost his voice I lost my childhood"), social ("I am overpowered by the gigantism / of commercial governing"), and existential ("I am an incident trapped in thick description), all the while maintaining a deceptive ease of expressiveness that belies the underground swell of disquiet, which marks the entire volume."—Hyperallergic.com
"In the title poem of his eighth book, Now It's Dark, Peter Gizzi strikes a Tennysonian note that calls to mind both the tone and imagery of "In Memoriam A. H. H.": "Sky opening into blank. / I thought grief is a form of grace." The poem proceeds through inflections confessional ("When my brother lost his voice I lost my childhood"), social ("I am overpowered by the gigantism / of commercial governing"), and existential ("I am an incident trapped in thick description), all the while maintaining a deceptive ease of expressiveness that belies the underground swell of disquiet, which marks the entire volume."—Hyperallergic.com
Endorsements
"This new poetry, taking such care of tem-perature—the time & details of the world—meaning the space(s) in which we live—defining love in this way. Writing along the edge. What I call MR/everydayMagicalRealism. A way of writing about hope."—Kamau Brathwaite, author of The Lazarus Poems
"Gizzi is not a sentimental poet—not even close. His best poems exist on a different plane, as if he has achieved and is writing from a transcendent vantage most of us only strive forHe identifies the thing we're all searching for in voices, in poems, in language, in songs; why we read and why we listen."—Amanda Petrsich, The New Yorker
"There's no ego in this writer's work. It's one of the purest examples of truth told from an inside source, beautifully patterned on the page. There's no training ground for such writing. Every page, every poem, is challenged with unpredictability and intensity."—Grace Cavalieri, Washington Independent
"Gizzi is not a sentimental poet—not even close. His best poems exist on a different plane, as if he has achieved and is writing from a transcendent vantage most of us only strive forHe identifies the thing we're all searching for in voices, in poems, in language, in songs; why we read and why we listen."—Amanda Petrsich, The New Yorker
"There's no ego in this writer's work. It's one of the purest examples of truth told from an inside source, beautifully patterned on the page. There's no training ground for such writing. Every page, every poem, is challenged with unpredictability and intensity."—Grace Cavalieri, Washington Independent
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Other Titles by Peter Gizzi
Archeophonics
Peter Gizzi
Oct 2017
- Wesleyan University Press
$24.95 USD
- Hardback
$12.99 USD
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$15.95 USD
- Paperback / softback
The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest
Barbara Guest, edited by Hadley Guest, OtherPeter Gizzi
May 2016
- Wesleyan University Press
$27.95 USD
- Paperback / softback
$22.99 USD
- Electronic book text
In Defense of Nothing
Peter Gizzi
Apr 2015
- Wesleyan University Press
$26.95 USD
- Hardback
$14.99 USD
- Electronic book text
$18.95 USD
- Paperback / softback
Other Titles from Wesleyan Poetry Series
Asked What Has Changed
Ed Roberson
Jan 2023
- Wesleyan University Press
$24.95 USD
- Hardback
$15.95 USD
- Paperback / softback
$19.99 USD
- Electronic book text
Be Brave to Things
Jack Spicer, edited by Daniel Katz
Oct 2021
- Wesleyan University Press
$35.00 USD
- Hardback
The Past
Wendy Xu
Sep 2021
- Wesleyan University Press
$15.95 USD
- Paperback / softback
$25.00 USD
- Hardback
Other Titles in POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss
Fields of Light and Stone
Angeline Schellenberg
Mar 2020
- The University of Alberta Press, an imprint of University of Alberta Press
$19.99 USD
- Paperback / softback
Wonderful Wasteland and other natural disasters
Elidio La Torre Lagares
Sep 2019
- University Press of Kentucky
$19.95 USD
- Paperback / softback
$19.95 USD
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$19.95 USD
- Electronic book text
Other Titles in Poetry by individual poets
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Randall Horton
Sep 2020
- University Press of Kentucky
$19.95 USD
- Paperback / softback
$19.95 USD
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- Electronic book text
T. S. Eliot's Dialectical Imagination
Jewel Spears Brooker
Nov 2018
- Johns Hopkins University Press
$49.95 USD
- Hardback
$49.95 USD
- Electronic book text
Future Perfect
poems by Charles Martin
Mar 2018
- Johns Hopkins University Press
$19.95 USD
- Paperback / softback
$19.95 USD
- Electronic book text