Threshold Songs
Peter Gizzi
(Author)
Description
A series of private and ecstatic meditations on living and dying
About Threshold Songs, the voices in these poems perform at the interior thresholds encountered each day, where we negotiate the unfathomable proximities of knowing and not knowing, the gulf of seeing and feeling, the uncanny relation of grief to joy, and the borderless nature of selfhood and tradition. Both conceptual and haunted, these poems explore the asymmetry of the body's chemistry and its effects on expression and form. The poems in Threshold Songs tune us to the microtonal music of speaking and being spoken. Check for the online reader's companion at http: //petergizzi.site.wesleyan.edu.
Product Details
| Publisher | Wesleyan University Press |
| Publish Date | September 15, 2011 |
| Pages | 104 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Hardback |
| EAN/UPC | 9780819571748 |
| Dimensions | 8.7 X 6.4 X 0.6 inches | 0.7 pounds |
About the Author
PETER GIZZI is the author of The Outernationale, Some Values of Landscape and Weather, Artificial Heart, and Periplum. He teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Reviews
"Gizzi's poems reach persistently for what comes to seem like the ghost of the beauty of the world."--Rae Armantrout, Harriet blog, poetryfoundation.org
"Threshold Songs, as the title suggests, pushes against both abstraction and lyric voicing, ensnaring the close listener in an intensifying cascade of dissociative rhythms and discursive constellations. Songs also say, saying also sings. And what at first seems to resist song becomes song. These enthralling, sometime soaring, poems approach, without dwelling in, elegy. They are the soundtrack of a political and cultural moment whose echoic presence Gizzi makes as viscous as the 'dark blooming surfs of winter ice.'"--Charles Bernstein
"Gizzi's poems reach persistently for what comes to seem like the ghost of the beauty of the world."--Rae Armantrout, Harriet blog, poetryfoundation.org
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