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SHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZE 2024The powerful new collection from legendary American poet Peter Gizzi, reckoning with the transformative power of elegy through poems of lament and love‘I am awestruck, dumbfounded … a masterwork’ Ocean Vuong’Transcendent … He identifies the thing we’re all searching for’ The New YorkerIn Fierce Elegy, Peter Gizzi contends with a decade of grief, and learns to transform a broken heart into new strength. These are poems of loss; of love; of the strangeness of being a self amid the fury of the world; and of our ongoing closeness with the dead. They are soaring yet grounded, vulnerable and brave. Ears attuned, grip assured. Mind free.
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| Weight | 0.079 kg |
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| Dimensions | 0.7 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm |
| Format | Paperback |
| Language | |
| Pages | 80 |
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| Year Published | 2024-7-4 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 1802065245 |
| About The Author | Peter Gizzi is the author of many collections of poetry including Now It’s Dark (2020), Archeophonics, a finalist for the National Book Award (2016), Threshold Songs (2011), and In Defense of Nothing: Selected Poems, 1987–2011 (2014). He has also published several limited-edition chapbooks, folios, and artist books. Marjorie Perloff has called him ‘a master of the mot juste’; Robert Creeley, ‘one of the most exceptional poets of his generation’. Adrienne Rich has said ‘his disturbing lyricism is like no other’; and John Ashbery thought him ‘the most exciting new poet to come along in quite a while’. He lives in Holyoke, MA. |
| Review Quote | Lyrics of resignation are juxtaposed with ecstatic lines that reimagine silence as “conversations with the dead”. Spare and raked of impurities, these poems reside in an airy purgatory of the soul… In its beautiful, fiery insistence this collection redeclares the elegy as the undying practice of the living |
| Other text | With his last several collections, Peter Gizzi has distinguished himself as one of America’s finest living poets. In his latest book, Fierce Elegy, we find the poet writing at the height of his powers |
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