Now It's Dark

✍ Scribed by Peter Gizzi

• Book ID: 110698130
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 16 KB
• Series: Wesleyan Poetry Series
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780819579881
• ASIN: B08LK5L8QP

✦ Synopsis

Peter Gizzi has written a brilliant follow-up to his National Book Award finalist Archeophonics. The poems in this new collection are concerned with grieving, with poetry and death, with beauty and sadness, with light. There is a necessary darkness that shines throughout. As Ben Lerner has written, "Gizzi's poetry is an example of how a poet's total tonal attention can disclose new orders of sensation and meaning. His beautiful lines are full of deft archival allusion." With litany, elegy, and prose, Gizzi continues his pursuit toward a lyric of reality. Saturated with luminous detail, these original poems possess, even in their sorrowing moments, a dizzying freedom. Objects, images, and their histories are caught here in their half-life, their profoundly human afterlife.