Peter Gizzi

Peter Gizzi’s recent books include, Now It’s Dark, Sky Burial: New and Selected Poems and Archeophonics. A new book, Fierce Elegy, is forthcoming in 2023. Photograph © Jon Beacham

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Poetry | Issue 162

Ecstatic Joy and Its Variants

Peter Gizzi

‘surely this is about water jetting from a spring, / a languid rafting with no particular destination’

Poetry by Peter Gizzi.

Poetry | Issue 160

But the Heart in a Sense Is Far from Me Floating Out There

Peter Gizzi

‘It’s right to extract bone from the afterlife’

A poem by Peter Gizzi.

In Conversation | The Online Edition

In Conversation

Anthony Caleshu & Peter Gizzi

‘Words are haunted. Think of it: as long as there have been soldiers there have been poets. I have often felt that being a poet is a form of civil disobedience.’