7%OFF
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
Outernationale
Peter Gizzi
€ 16.99
€ 15.86
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Outernationale
Paperback. A luminous new work for the 21st century Num Pages: 132 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 209.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University Press of New England United States
Number of pages
132
Condition
New
Number of Pages
132
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780819567376
SKU
V9780819567376
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-3
About Peter Gizzi
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.
Reviews for Outernationale
"Peter Gizzi's The Outernationale is magnificent. It gives me what I need from poetry - a reminder to feel alive.... He remembers that a shiver of sensation is vital, it's the first thing, before mere message or artful phrasing." - Ange Mlinko, poetryfoundation.org "The Outernationale is a remarkable book: in poem after poem, nerve flares into shimmering gauze." - John ... Read more