Peter Gizzi at Bridge Street 4/6/07 8 PM
Please join us for a particularly delicious Friday night event at Bridge Street Books.
Friday April 6th, 8 PM
PETER GIZZI
A reading and publication celebration for his new book
from Wesleyan University Press, THE OUTERNATIONALE.
Gizzi’s other collections include Artificial Heart (Burning Deck, 1998), Some Values of Landscape and Weather (Wesleyan, 2003), and Periplum and other poems (Salt, 2004). He is also the editor of The House that Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer (Wesleyan, 1998). Gizzi has taught at Brown University and The University of California, Santa Cruz. He currently teaches in the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at The University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Adrienne Rich writes of The Outernationale: “Peter Gizzi's disturbing lyricism is like no other—the innermost whir of the daily curtain rising on outer catastrophe.” & Anselm Berrigan adds: “Peter Gizzi's achingly beautiful poems create tiny openings for being – the whole lonely, searching grandeur of a one—to find and examine its contours between the conditions of ‘what happened’ and ‘what’s happening.’”
Gizzi’s author page at the EPC
& profile at The Academy of American Poets
Bridge Street Books is located in Georgetown next to the Four Seasons Hotel, 5 blocks from the Foggy Bottom Metro station (blue & orange lines).
