Fierce elegy

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In Peter Gizzi’s powerful new collection, we find, in the poet’s words, that ‘the elegy is a mode that can transform a broken heart in a fierce world into a fierce heart in a broken world’. For Gizzi, ferocity can be reimagined as vulnerability, bravery and discovery, a braiding of emotional and otherworldly depth, ‘a holding open’. In Gizzi’s voice joy and sorrow make a complex ecosystem. One of our foremost practitioners of the lyric, Gizzi here extends his mastery of the form. In their quest for a lyric reality, these poems remind us that elegy is lament but also – as it has been for centuries – a mode of love poetry as well.

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SKU: 9781802065244 Category: Tags: , Publisher/imprint : Penguin Books
Page count : 80
Published on 4th July, 2024

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The powerful new collection from legendary American poet Peter Gizzi, reckoning with the transformative power of elegy through poems of lament and love

‘I am awestruck, dumbfounded ? a masterwork’ Ocean Vuong
‘Transcendent … He identifies the thing we’re all searching for’ The New Yorker

In Fierce Elegy, Peter Gizzi contends with a decade of grief, and learns to transform a broken heart into new strength. These are poems of loss; of love; of the strangeness of being a self amid the fury of the world; and of our ongoing closeness with the dead. They are soaring yet grounded, vulnerable and brave. Ears attuned, grip assured. Mind free.

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Weight 0.079 kg
Dimensions 19.8 × 12.9 × 0.7 cm
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