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Fierce Elegy

Peter Gizzi
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin)
Published: July 4, 2024
ISBN: 9781802065244
80 pages
Country of publication: United Kingdom

£9.99

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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