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Archeophonics

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Soulful and intricate lyrics make this Gizzi's strongest book to date

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." It recognizes that the poem is not a decorative art object but a means of organizing the world, in the words of anthropologist Clifford Geertz, "into transient examples of shaped behavior." Archeophonics is a series of discrete poems that are linked by repeated phrases and words, and its themes and nothing less than joy, outrage, loss, transhistorical thought, and day-to-day life. It is a private book of public and civic concerns.


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Series: Wesleyan Poetry Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

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  • Release date: December 13, 2022

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  • ISBN: 9780819576811
  • File size: 2734 KB
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  • ISBN: 9780819576811
  • File size: 2911 KB
  • Release date: December 13, 2022

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  • ISBN: 9780819576811
  • File size: 2281 KB
  • Release date: December 13, 2022

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Soulful and intricate lyrics make this Gizzi's strongest book to date

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." It recognizes that the poem is not a decorative art object but a means of organizing the world, in the words of anthropologist Clifford Geertz, "into transient examples of shaped behavior." Archeophonics is a series of discrete poems that are linked by repeated phrases and words, and its themes and nothing less than joy, outrage, loss, transhistorical thought, and day-to-day life. It is a private book of public and civic concerns.


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    Publisher:
    Wesleyan University Press

    Kindle Book
    Release date: December 13, 2022

    OverDrive Read
    ISBN: 9780819576811
    File size: 2734 KB
    Release date: December 13, 2022

    EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9780819576811
    File size: 2911 KB
    Release date: December 13, 2022

    PDF ebook
    ISBN: 9780819576811
    File size: 2281 KB
    Release date: December 13, 2022

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