Archeophonics - Brossura

Gizzi, Peter

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0819577723 ISBN 13: 9780819577726

Casa editrice: Wesleyan Univ Pr, 2017

Riassunto

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.

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Recensione

-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

-Award-winning poet Gizzi here uses spare, focused language to reflect on language itself: its origins, structure, uses, and music. -The old language/ says the apple/ is the old apple,- he proclaims, reflecting how words are rooted deep down in our past. But as language complexified, it gave that apple -all/ the dance floor/ she needed,- and -hot syntax- has remade our view of the world (-I hate that, when syntax/ connects me to the rich-). 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.- But what better tool for expressing -this hammering/ thing, life-? VERDICT Maybe tough sledding for the less intellectually inclined, yet seasoned readers shouldn't miss.- --Library Journal

"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

"Award-winning poet Gizzi here uses spare, focused language to reflect on language itself: its origins, structure, uses, and music. "The old language/ says the apple/ is the old apple," he proclaims, reflecting how words are rooted deep down in our past. But as language complexified, it gave that apple "all/ the dance floor/ she needed," and "hot syntax" has remade our view of the world ("I hate that, when syntax/ connects me to the rich"). 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." But what better tool for expressing "this hammering/ thing, life"? VERDICT Maybe tough sledding for the less intellectually inclined, yet seasoned readers shouldn't miss." --Library Journal

L'autore

PETER GIZZI is the author of six collections of poetry including Threshold Songs and In Defense of Nothing. He works at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

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• Editore: Wesleyan Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0819577723
• ISBN 13: 9780819577726
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 82