Periplum and other poems by Peter Gizzi
Periplum and other poems brings together Peter Gizzis 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 Gizzis work from 1987 to 1992.Periplum reveals and shatters an unspeakably fragile world.. emerging with a new knowing, a knowing that matters, as in matters of life and death.
-- Michael Boughn * 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.
-- Jeremy Noel-todd * 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.
-- D. A. Powell * San Fransisco Poetry Flash *The beautiful fragile balance achieved here is simply amazing.
-- Chris Stroffolino * 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.
-- Martin Stannard * Litter Magazine *| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781844710737 |
| ISBN 10 | 1844710734 |
| Title | Periplum and other poems |
| Author | Peter Gizzi |
| Series | Salt Modern Poets |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Salt Publishing |
| Year published | 2004-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 140 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |