Results for "Gizzi, Peter"

Clark Coolidge's book-length meditation on a crystal--long considered a masterpiece of American avant-garde poetry--returns in a new edition. "No other poet ever has so exquisitely, and sometimes also turbulently, written sheer sonic wonder into poetry."--Lyn Hejinian, author of My Life and My Life ... Read More about The Crystal Text

Peter Gizzi's powerful new collection reminds us that the elegy is lament but also--as it has been for centuries--a work of lovePeter Gizzi has said 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 reimag... Read More about Fierce Elegy (Wesleyan Poetry)

An essential collection of a highly original American poetWinner of the Northern California Independent Booksellers Award for Poetry (2009)Winner of the American Book Award (2009)In 1965, when the poet Jack Spicer died at the age of forty, he left behind a trunkful of papers and manuscripts and a fe... Read More about My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer (Wesleyan Poetry)

Out of print for decades, this is the legendary American poet's tribute to Federico García Lorca, including translations of the great Spanish poet's work.Jack Spicer was one of the outstanding figures of the mid-twentieth-century San Francisco Renaissance, bent on fashioning a visionary new lyricism... Read More about After Lorca

A new collection of poems from one of America's most vital and imaginative poetsThe 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... Read More about Now It's Dark (Wesleyan Poetry)

J. H. Prynne is Britain’s leading late-modernist poet. His work, as it has emerged since the 1960s, when he was close to Charles Olson and Edward Dorn, is marked by a remarkable combination of lyricism and abstraction, at once austere and playful. The White Stones is a book that is central to Prynne... Read More about The White Stones (NYRB Poets)