"‘Transcendental Beauty’ of Peter Gizzi’s Fierce Elegy Wins him TS Eliot Poetry Prize"
"Gizzi, the author of poetry collections including Now It’s Dark and National Book Award finalist Archeophonics, has long been interested in elegies. 'The elegy allows me to explore the significant awareness of periodicity as a measure of the world, the periodicity of a life form, of one’s own life, of others,' he told the White Review in 2020. 'It is a way to transform a broken heart in a fierce world into a fierce heart in a broken world.'"
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What Sparks Poetry: Henri Cole on James Longenbach's "In the Village"
"Jim is not really nostalgic for his past life but in love with beginnings, 'A wish// A wish not to be removed/ From time/ But always to be immersed in it.' Yes, to be immersed in time again, like the boats that come in and out of the harbor, and to feel again the progress of the sun and the splash of green waves, to begin anew, to not be removed, and to listen to the secret vibrations of the world." |
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