Archeophonics is the first collection of new work from the poet Peter Gizzi in five years. 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. The book takes seriously the opening epigraph by the late great James Schuyler: ‘poetry, like music, is not just song.’ It recognizes that the poem is not a decorative art object but a means of organizing the world, in the words of anthropologist Clifford Geertz, ‘into transient examples of shaped behavior.’ Archeophonics is a series of discrete poems that are linked by repeated phrases and words, and its themes and nothing less than joy, outrage, loss, transhistorical thought, and day-to-day life. It is a private book of public and civic concerns.
Cuprins
HYPO VIGILANT
FIELD RECORDINGS
RELEASE THE DARKNESS TO NEW LICHEN THE WINTER SUN SAYS FIGHT
THIS WORLD IS NOT CONCLUSION
A SOCIAL HISTORY OF MERCURY
NIGHT WORK
WHEN ORBITAL PROXIMITY FEELS CREEPY SONG
INSTAGRAMMER
HOW TO READ
CIVIL TWILIGHT
GOOGLE EARTH
RAINY DAYS AND MONDAYS
A GHOSTING FLORAL
ANTICO ADAGIO
PRETTY SWEETY
A GARDEN IN THE AIR
A WINDING SHEET FOR SUMMER
BEWITCHED
Acknowledgements
Despre autor
Peter Gizzi is the author of many collections of poetry, including Now It’s Dark (2020), Archeophonics (2016), a finalist for the National Book Award, Threshold Songs (2011), and In Defense of Nothing: Selected Poems, 1987–2011 (2014), a finalist for the LA Times Book Award. He has also published several limited-edition chapbooks, folios, and artist books. Marjorie Perloff has called him ‘a master of the mot juste and of sound structure;’ Robert Creeley, ‘one of the most exceptional poets of his generation.’ Adrienne Rich has said ‘his disturbing lyricism is like no other;’ and John Ashbery thought him ‘the most exciting new poet to come along in quite a while.’ He lives in Holyoke, MA.
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