Fierce elegy
Gizzi, Peter2024
Book
In Peter Gizzi's powerful new collection, we find, in the poet's words, 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. One of our foremost practitioners of the lyric, Gizzi here extends his mastery of the form. In their quest for a lyric reality, these poems remind us that elegy is lament but also - as it has been for centuries - a mode of love poetry as well.
Main title:
Fierce elegy / Peter Gizzi.
Author:
Gizzi, Peter, author
Work:
Imprint:
UK : Penguin Books, 2024.
Collation:
63 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2023.
ISBN:
9781802065244 (pbk)
Dewey class:
811.54
Language:
English
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BRN:
767973