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Periplum and other poems 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.
List of contents
- I. PERIPLUM
- Song of the Interior Begin
- Mahler's 2nd
- Mise en Scène
- Periplum
- The Locket
- News at Eleven
- Hierophant
- The Creation
- The Locket
- Periplum II
- Life Continues
- Conceit
- Song of the Comparative Night
- The Locket
- Periplum III
- The Locket
- Hubris
- Song of a Lexicon
- Periplum IV
- Blue Peter
- A.K.A.
- Song of the Liver
- The Locket
- Periplum V
- The Locket
- Nocturne
- Song: I Lost My Pail
- Periplum VI
- Despite Your Notices
- Capital
- Song of the Den
- Deus ex Machina
- Song of an Acute Angle
- The Locket
- Periplum VII (a valentine)
- A.K.A.
- Hard as Ash
- II. MUSIC FOR FILMS
- Music for Films
- III. OTHER POEMS
- Hours of the Book
- Nostos: Pro Patria
- Thirty Sentences for No One
- Psalm
- Poem for John Wieners
- Postcard: I Hear America Singing
- Façades for Theron Ware
- Often I am Allowed These Messages
- Dear Jack
- Asserted Abundance
- Still Life with Automobile
- A Speaking Part
About the author
Peter Gizzi grew up in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. His poetry collections include Artificial Heart (Burning Deck, 1998) and Some Values of Landscape and Weather (Wesleyan, 2003). In 1994 he received the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets. He is also the editor of The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer (Wesleyan, 1998). He teaches at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
