Periplum and Other Poems: 1987-1992 (Salt Modern Poets) - Softcover

Gizzi, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844710734 ISBN 13: 9781844710737

Publisher: Salt Publishing, 2004

Synopsis

"Periplum and other poems" brings together Peter Gizzi's celebrated and influential first book, out of print for nearly a decade, with 60 pages of early and uncollected work, including the long poem "Music for Films." This new edition functions as a collected poems of Gizzi's work from 1987 to 1992. John Ashbery hailed Gizzi as "the most exciting poet to come along in quite a while." The vibrancy and immediacy of Gizzi's poems constitute 21st-century lyricism at its best, a richly complex music engaged with the crucial questions of and around contemporary culture. Michael Boughn wrote in the "Poetry Project Newsletter" that ""Periplum" reveals and shatters an unspeakably fragile world ...emerging with a new knowing, a knowing that matters, as in matters of life and death." His poems achieve a delicate balance of emotional and intellectual richness and the sense of poetry itself as a primary ground of human experience.

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Product Description:

Periplum and other poems brings together Peter Gizzi's celebrated and influential first book, out of print for nearly a decade, with 60 pages of early and uncollected work, including the long poem "Music for Films." This new edition functions as a collected poems of Gizzi's work from 1987 to 1992.

Review:

Periplum reveals and shatters an unspeakably fragile world ... emerging with a new knowing, a knowing that matters, as in matters of life and death.

Author: Michael Boughn Source: Poetry Project Newsletter

The reader must [...] be alert, but give this book a couple of hours – the amount of time you might give the kind of art cinema it recalls (the middle section is titled “Music for Films”) – and Periplum's odd angles take satisfying shape.

Author: Jeremy Noel-todd Source: The Telegraph

Peter Gizzi’s Periplum arises out of the same tradition as Frank O’Hara’s: suffused in irony, creating odd juxtapositions, alternatingly enigmatic and direct.

Author: D. A. Powell Source: San Fransisco Poetry Flash

The beautiful fragile balance achieved here is simply amazing.

Author: Chris Stroffolino Source: To Magazine

Never mind about the bewilderment. One should be more concerned with the acts of intelligence. Peter Gizzi’s poetry says this all the time. Not that one would (or could) paraphrase any of the poems as such, but that’s what the entire enterprise is based upon. That’s what one has to remember. We forget it, I think, at our peril.

Author: Martin Stannard Source: Litter Magazine

About this edition

• Publisher: Salt Publishing
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1844710734
• ISBN 13: 9781844710737
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 140