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Fierce Elegy
Hardcover
Series: Wesleyan Poetry
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ISBN13: 9780819500670
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: Aug 8 2023
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.46 Width: 5.65 Depth: 7.84
Language: English
Peter Gizzi's powerful new collection reminds us that the elegy is lament but also--as it has been for centuries--a work of love
Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize
Winner of the Massachusetts Book Award
Peter 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 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. In their quest for a lyric reality, these poems remind us that elegy is lament but also--as it has been for centuries--a work of love. This new poetry, Kamau Brathwaite has written about Gizzi, taking such care of temperature--the time & details of the world--meaning the space(s) in which we live--defining love in this way. Writing along the edge. A way of writing about hope.
[sample poem]
Creely Song
all that is lovely
in words, even
if gone to pieces
all that is lovely
gone, all of it
for love and
autobiography
as if I were
writing this
hello, listen
the plan is
the body and
all of it for love
now in pieces
all that is lovely
echoes still
in life & death
still memory
gardens open
onto windows
lovely, the charm
that mirrors
all that was, all
that is, lovely
in a song
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