The outernationale / Peter Gizzi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gizzi, Peter.

Series:

Wesleyan poetry

Language:

English

Physical Description:

111 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, [2007]

Summary:

Peter Gizzi's powerful new collection fuses documentary truth with imaginative force. The Outernationale locates us "just off the grid," in an emotional and spiritual frontier, where reverie, outrage, history, and vision merge. Thinking and feeling become one in the urgent music of Gizzi's poems. Saturated with luminous detail, these original poems possess, even in their sorrowing moments, a dizzying freedom. This is both a poetry of conscience and the embodiment of a genuinely poetic consciousness. Objects, images, and their histories are caught here in their half-life, their profoundly human after-life. Gizzi has written a brilliant follow-up to Some Values of Landscape and Weather, a book hailed by Robert Creeley as "a breakthrough book in every way: for reader, for writer, and for the art."

Contents:

The Quest

Stung

Scratch Ticket

I Wanted The Screen Door Of Summer

The Outernationale

Untitled Amherst Specter

A Telescope Protects Its View

Aubade And Beyond

Human Memory Is Organic

Beacon

From A Cinematographer's Letter

That's Life

Nocturne

Lines Depicting Simple Happiness

Phantascope (1895)

Vincent, Homesick For The Land Of Pictures

Bipolaroid

Last Century Thoughts In Snow Tonight

Wintry Mix

Cheap Imitation

Saturday And Its Festooned Potential

Homer's Anger

Lumiere

A Paper Wind

The Moonlight Defense

Bolshevescent

Dead Air

Fretless

On What Became Of Mathew Brady's Battle Photographs

Protest Song

A Western Garden

From Here Laughter Sounds Like Crying.

ISBN:

9780819567369

0819567361

OCLC:

74123845