Pages: 108
ISBN: 9780819576804
Pub Date: 06 Sep 2016
Imprint: Wesleyan University Press
Series: Wesleyan Poetry Series
Illustrations: 1 illus.
Pages: 108
ISBN: 9780819577726
Pub Date: 03 Oct 2017
Imprint: Wesleyan University Press
Series: Wesleyan Poetry Series
Illustrations: 1 illus.
Description:
Archeophonics is the first collection of new work from the poet Peter Gizzi in five years. Archeophonics, defined as the archeology of lost sound, is one way of understanding the role and the task of poetry: to recover the buried sounds and shapes of languages in the tradition of the art, and the multitude of private connections that lie undisclosed in one’s emotional memory. The book takes seriously the opening epigraph by the late great James Schuyler: “poetry, like music, is not just song.