Fierce ElegyPeter Gizzi Peter Gizzi's powerful new collection reminds us that the elegy is lament but alsoas it has been for centuriesa work of love. Peter Gizzi has said that "the elegy is a mode that can transform a broken heart in a fierce world into a fierce heart in a broken world." For Gizzi, ferocity can be reimagined as vulnerability, bravery and discovery, a braiding of emotional and otherworldly depth, "a holding open." In Gizzi's voice joy and sorrow

a 'desert island book' by Anne Boyer and 'this generation's Dream Songs' by Maggie Nelson

who served as an infantryman on the Western Front

and obliteration

We interpret insomnia according to our working life

The work was composed between 1965 until at least July 1971

original poetry

and translator

" as she puts it

“It would be too easy to say love vanished from the earth…” begins Ted Dodson’s An Orange

interdisciplinary

The concept of Dog Ear is simple and straightforward: dog-eared pages of mass-market paperbacks are photographed to isolate the small diagonally bisected squares or rectangles of text

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