Threshold Songs (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

No isn't it amazing, no none of that.

To crow, to crown, to cry, to crumble. The trees the air warms into a bright something a bluish nothing into clicks and pops bursts and percussive runs. I come with my asymmetries, my untutored imagination. Heathenish, my homespun vision sponsored by the winter sky. Then someone said nether, someone whirr. And if I say the words will you know them?

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Are they still calling it that? This World Is Not Conclusion. It Was Raining in Delft. Since I'm condemned to death by your decree, Fabio, and don't appeal, resist or flee the wrathful judgment, hear me, for there's no culprit of such guilt should be refused confession.

Wesleyan Poetry: Threshold Songs by Peter Gizzi (2012, Paperback)

Because, you say, you've been informed my breast has caused offence to you, I stand condemned, ferocious one. Bowling Green State University. Emory University Creative Writing Program. Washburn University Department of English. Wesleyan University Press Reading. Since , Wesleyan University Press has demonstrated a continued dedication to the literary arts. Best known for its award-winning poetry series, the press has also ventured into fiction and hybrid works. This reading shares the diversity of voice and style that is characteristic of Wesleyan. From jazz poetry and politically charged verse to provocative fiction and forms that blur the lines between poetry and prose, Wesleyan continues to nurture exceptional literature in a variety of forms.

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Threshold Songs (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

Everyone told me how good this was and yet I still feel I was ill prepared. May 18, John Allen rated it it was amazing.

Peter Gizzi is one of the most talented poets of our generation as he proves with this sparse, phenomenal collection, "Threshold Songs". Gizzi's style is dizzying in the same way that a painting beginning to drool is dizzying--his phantom like dissection table of poems, really in no one fixed form, is like reading a chat between a man and Kant's "The Thing In Itself".

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Example, and my personal favorite: What do you see when you see the shape of a hare and a galaxy, a river and some rushes, when you see the outline of the hare and its positive adrift. What do you see when you read left to right, a cartoon boy on a cartoon lawn, arms outstretched, when you see the word SUN in block capitals over there, a shaft of whiteout above the hare leaping into an unked heart into a ghost boy into a green ray into space.

You'll see the read and blue shift, you'll see orbiting patterns, and now you see a woman buried in sepia with child. One could too easily categorize this as "conceptual poetry"--I think that pigeonholes what Gizzi has accomplished here.

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It is a manifesto of sensory deprivation and acclimation, a waterboarding of complacency, a pyrotechnic show of prosody--all that and more. Absolutely recommended to any lover of poetry. Mar 11, Joe rated it it was amazing. I have a copy of my vocabulary did this to me but haven't ever really read gizzi's work other than "gray sails" in perloff's "poetry on the brink. Jun 01, Gordon Hilgers rated it it was amazing.

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Drawing from past traditions of minimalism and Language Poetry, Gizzi takes the unfamiliar to open readers to new ways of looking at the world. In that nonfailing light, Gizzi takes us to the threshold, the edge, the opening into a world only he can provide us. The difference between Gizzi and his poetry is a line he deliberately obscures, and the crispness of his imagery fuses with natural qualities so completely that we see the work of genius in process.

Process, as well, is an important word Drawing from past traditions of minimalism and Language Poetry, Gizzi takes the unfamiliar to open readers to new ways of looking at the world. Process, as well, is an important word to remember while reading this poet's work, mainly because his poems refrain from solid reality into a sort of processional quality that advents the sacred.

I highly recommend this book to poets who are looking for something beyond the quotidian imagery many poets continue to utilize. Abstract, beautifully lyrical reflections on the wonderment in the everyday and on the borders we cross over: Gizzi poses questions with answers that can often only be siphoned through experience. He asks readers to step back and observe the world surrounding them, capturing specific moments too easily overlooked.

There's a certain alchemy coursing it's way through these poems. I am glad I purchased this book because I am sure I will return to it often.