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| Genre/Form: | Poetry |
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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Gizzi, Peter. Archeophonics. Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2016] (DLC) 2016025371 |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Peter Gizzi |
| ISBN: | 9780819576804 0819576808 9780819577726 0819577723 |
| OCLC Number: | 945648795 |
| Description: | 82 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm. |
| Contents: | Archeophonics -- Field recordings -- When orbital proximity feels creepy -- Release the darkness to new lichen -- A social history of mercury -- "The winter sun says fight" -- This world is not conclusion -- Night work -- Song -- Google Earth -- Rainy days and Mondays -- Instagrammar -- Antico adagio -- Pretty sweety -- A ghosting floral -- A garden in the air -- Sentences in a synapse field -- How to read -- Civil twilight -- A winding sheet for summer -- Bewitched. |
| Series Title: | Wesleyan poetry. |
| Other Titles: | Poems. |
| Responsibility: | Peter Gizzi. |
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"In his eighth collection, Gizzi continues his quest to renew lyricism ... his ear remains as appealing as ever, and his paratactic syntax still surprises line by line ... At their warmest, Gizzi's poems offer genuinely moving confrontations with mortality, history, and tradition."-- "Publishers Weekly" (1/1/2016 12:00:00 AM) "Award-winning poet Gizzi here uses spare, focused language to reflect on language itself: its origins, structure, uses, and music ... reflecting how words are rooted deep down in our past. But language is complicated. Hence our need--and our difficulty--in separating appearance from reality, effluence from essence; the 'static lovely' of what we want to communicate must traverse 'a grubby transom.'"-- "Library Journal" (1/1/2016 12:00:00 AM) "A trajectory runs through the whole from poems of despair and loss to those of revival as 'the old language/continues its dialogues/in ordinary dust.' The book directly raises questions of how one is to go about the writing of poetry given the collapse of language and the self."--Martha Ronk "The Constant Critic" (1/4/2017 12:00:00 AM) "Archeophonics is perhaps Gizzi's most personal book; it is tender, lyric, strange, and chatty. He writes from a place of deep intimacy with loss, as if he has locked eyes with 'the fragility of the world and of being, ' as he described."--Amanda Petrusich "The New Yorker" (10/17/2016 12:00:00 AM) ..".a courageous book where the poet fearlessly inserts himself into the very heart of the existential questions that plague him on a daily basis. His answers bespeak an honest resilience in the face of our mortality."--Sonja James, The Journal "Archeophonics is an unprecedented and haunting meditation on poetry, how it retains memories of its former manifestations, the politics of this retention, and how, most importantly, in spite of everything, voice rises to the surface and poetry survives."--Melih Levi, Colorado Review "A book about vibe: the vibrations in the air we call sound waves; the vibrations of history we feel through time; the particular emotional vibrations that give certain people or objects or occasions what we call an aura, a vibe. The lift in Gizzi's lyrics is less intellectual, or even revelational, than vibrational."--Matt Rader, Wales Arts Review Archeophonics, defined as the archeology of lost sound, is one way of understanding the role and the task of poetry: to recover the buried sounds and shapes of languages in the tradition of the art, and the multitude of private connections that lie undisclosed in one s emotional memory. Publishers Weekly" " Archeophonics, defined as the archeology of lost sound, is one way of understanding the role and the task of poetry: to recover the buried sounds and shapes of languages in the tradition of the art, and the multitude of private connections that lie undisclosed in one s emotional memory." Publisher's Weekly" Read more...
