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Peter Gizzi

Peter Gizzi is the author of In Defense of Nothing: Selected Poems 1987-2011 (Wesleyan, 2014), Threshold Songs (Wesleyan, 2011), The Outernationale (Wesleyan, 2007), Some Values of Landscape and Weather (Wesleyan, 2003), Artificial Heart (Burning Deck, 1998), and Periplum (Avec Books, 1992). He currently teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Re-Make/Re-Model

The old language says the apple is the old apple and spoke in categories, it gave her the dance floor she needed, all those vocabularies and animal nights before her. Spotted fur. Lithe. Taut.   The syllable in apple and the ecstasy of naming. Or was it knowing? ...

Snow Globe

January 8, 2014
This house is older than the lilac trusses glistening        in winter ice, older than the pack of Winstons on the wire chair, older than the chair as well as this glass of water        holding water. Is it ...

Several Vistas

Of death. And even that crust of representation they belong to, falling asleep in a bus station, uncertain that this was all there is, all one waking reverie, the only hint of actual existence, say an office window, is no longer your friend, but is itself become abstract, ...