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Peter Gizzi

Peter Gizzi is the author of seven collections of poetry, most recently, Archeophonics (finalist for the 2016 National Book Award), In Defense of Nothing and Threshold Songs. In February of 2020, Carcanet published Sky Burial: New & Selected Poems.

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In ConversationIn Conversation | The Online Edition
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.’

PoetryPoetry | The Online Edition
Poetry | The Online Edition

From This End of Sadness

Peter Gizzi

‘I did not understand / the code that held / me to the world.’

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Poetry | Issue 131 padlock

Release the Darkness to New Lichen

Peter Gizzi

‘was it wind or a creature / am I here or is it over’

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