The Outernationale

by Gizzi, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780819567369
• ISBN10: 0819567361
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-02-12
• Publisher: Wesleyan Univ Pr

Summary

Peter Gizzi's powerful new collection fuses documentary truth with imaginative force. The Outernationale locates us "just off the grid," in an emotional and spiritual frontier, where reverie, outrage, history, and vision merge. Thinking and feeling become one in the urgent music of Gizzi's poems. Saturated with luminous detail, these original poems possess, even in their sorrowing moments, a dizzying freedom. This is both a poetry of conscience and the embodiment of a genuinely poetic consciousness. Objects, images, and their histories are caught here in their half-life, their profoundly human after-life. Gizzi has written a brilliant follow-up to Some Values of Landscape and Weather, a book hailed by Robert Creeley as "a breakthrough book in every way: for reader, for writer, and for the art."

Author Biography

PETER GIZZI is the author of four books of poetry, including Some Values of Landscape and Weather (2003). He teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Table of Contents

A panic that can still come upon me	p. 1
The quest	p. 11
Stung	p. 13
Scratch ticket	p. 17
I wanted the screen door of summer	p. 19
The outernationale	p. 20
Untitled Amherst specter	p. 23
A telescope protects its view	p. 24
Aubade and beyond	p. 26
Human memory is organic	p. 27
Beacon	p. 31
From a cinematographer's letter	p. 38
That's life	p. 40
Nocturne	p. 43
Lines depicting simple happiness	p. 45
Phantascope (1895)	p. 46
Vincent, homesick for the land of pictures	p. 47
Bipolaroid	p. 54
Last century thoughts in snow tonight	p. 55
Wintry mix	p. 56
Cheap imitation	p. 58
Saturday and its festooned potential	p. 59
Homer's anger	p. 63
Lumiere	p. 72
A paper wind	p. 74
The moonlight defense	p. 78
Bolshevescent	p. 79
Dead air	p. 80
Fretless	p. 81
On what became of Mathew Brady's battle photographs	p. 86
Protest song	p. 88
A western garden	p. 89
The outernationale	p. 92
From here laughter sounds like crying	p. 105
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