{"product_id":"periplum-and-other-poems-1987-1992-9781844710737","title":"Periplum and other poems: 1987-1992","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePeriplum and other poems\u003c\/em\u003e brings together Peter Gizzi’s celebrated and influential first book, out of print for nearly a decade, with 60 pages of early and uncollected work, including the long poem “Music for Films.” This new edition functions as a collected poems of Gizzi’s work from 1987 to 1992. John Ashbery hailed Gizzi as “the most exciting poet to come along in quite a while.” The vibrancy and immediacy of Gizzi’s poems constitute 21st-century lyricism at its best, a richly complex music engaged with the crucial questions of and around contemporary culture. Michael Boughn wrote in the \u003cem\u003ePoetry Project Newsletter\u003c\/em\u003e that “\u003cem\u003ePeriplum\u003c\/em\u003e reveals and shatters an unspeakably fragile world ... emerging with a new knowing, a knowing that matters, as in matters of life and death.” His poems achieve a delicate balance of emotional and intellectual richness and the sense of poetry itself as a primary ground of human experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePeriplum\u003c\/em\u003e reveals and shatters an unspeakably fragile world ... emerging with a new knowing, a knowing that matters, as in matters of life and death.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Michael Boughn * Poetry Project Newsletter *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe reader must [...] be alert, but give this book a couple of hours – the amount of time you might give the kind of art cinema it recalls (the middle section is titled “Music for Films”) – and Periplum's odd angles take satisfying shape.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Jeremy Noel-todd * The Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter Gizzi’s \u003cem\u003ePeriplum\u003c\/em\u003e arises out of the same tradition as Frank O’Hara’s: suffused in irony, creating odd juxtapositions, alternatingly enigmatic and direct.\u003c\/p\u003e -- D. A. Powell * San Fransisco Poetry Flash *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe beautiful fragile balance achieved here is simply amazing.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Chris Stroffolino * To Magazine *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNever mind about the bewilderment. One should be more concerned with the acts of intelligence. Peter Gizzi’s poetry says this all the time. Not that one would (or could) paraphrase any of the poems as such, but that’s what the entire enterprise is based upon. That’s what one has to remember. We forget it, I think, at our peril.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Martin Stannard * Litter Magazine *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI. PERIPLUM\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSong of the Interior Begin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMahler’s 2nd\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMise en Scène\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePeriplum\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Locket\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNews at Eleven\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHierophant\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Creation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Locket\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePeriplum II\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLife Continues\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConceit\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSong of the Comparative Night\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Locket\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePeriplum III\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Locket\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHubris\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSong of a Lexicon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePeriplum IV\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBlue Peter\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA.K.A.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSong of the Liver\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Locket\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePeriplum V\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Locket\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNocturne\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSong: I Lost My Pail\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePeriplum VI\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDespite Your Notices\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCapital\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSong of the Den\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDeus ex Machina\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSong of an Acute Angle\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Locket\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePeriplum VII (a valentine)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA.K.A.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHard as Ash\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eII. MUSIC FOR FILMS\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMusic for Films\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIII. OTHER POEMS\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHours of the Book\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNostos: Pro Patria\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThirty Sentences for No One\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePsalm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePoem for John Wieners\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePostcard: I Hear America Singing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFaçades for Theron Ware\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOften I am Allowed These Messages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDear Jack\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAsserted Abundance\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStill Life with Automobile\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Speaking Part\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Salt Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771555938647,"sku":"9781844710737","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781844710737.jpg?v=1758728256","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/periplum-and-other-poems-1987-1992-9781844710737","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}