Fierce elegy

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In Peter Gizzi’s powerful new collection, we find, in the poet’s words, 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 make a complex ecosystem. One of our foremost practitioners of the lyric, Gizzi here extends his mastery of the form. In their quest for a lyric reality, these poems remind us that elegy is lament but also – as it has been for centuries – a mode of love poetry as well.

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WINNER OF THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZE 2024

The powerful new collection from legendary American poet Peter Gizzi, reckoning with the transformative power of elegy through poems of lament and love

‘I am awestruck, dumbfounded ? a masterwork’ Ocean Vuong
‘Transcendent … He identifies the thing we’re all searching for’ The New Yorker

In Fierce Elegy, Peter Gizzi contends with a decade of grief, and learns to transform a broken heart into new strength. These are poems of loss; of love; of the strangeness of being a self amid the fury of the world; and of our ongoing closeness with the dead. They are soaring yet grounded, vulnerable and brave. Ears attuned, grip assured. Mind free.

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Weight 78 g
Dimensions 19.8 × 12.9 × 0.6 cm
Author

Publisher

Penguin Books
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Cover

Paperback
Pages

80
Language

English
Edition
Dewey

811.54 (edition:23)
Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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