Peter Gizzi

PETER GIZZI is the author of several poetry collections, including Fierce Elegy, winner of the Massachusetts Book Award (2023); Now It’s Dark (2020); and Archeophonics, a finalist for the National Book Award (2016), all published by Wesleyan. In 2024, Penguin UK published an edition of Fierce Elegy, which won the T.S. Eliot Prize.

His honors include the Lavan Younger Poet Award from the Academy of American Poets and fellowships from The Rex Foundation, The Howard Foundation, The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and The John Guggenheim Foundation. He has held residencies at The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, The Foundation of French Literature at Royaumont, Un Bureau Sur L'Atlantique, the Centre International de Poesie Marseille (cipM), and Tamaas (Tangier). Gizzi has twice been the Judith E. Wilson Visiting Fellow in Poetry at the University of Cambridge (2010-11, 2015-16), and in 2024-25 he was a Senior Global Fellow in Poetry at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. In 2018, Wesleyan published In the Air: Essays on the Poetry of Peter Gizzi.

His editing work includes o•blēk: a journal of language arts (1987-1993); The Exact Change Yearbook (1995); The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer (1998/2025); and, with Kevin Killian, My Vocabulary Did This to Me, The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer (2008). He is also the Series Editor of The Collected Works of Jack Spicer, now in four volumes. From 2007 to 2011, he served as Poetry Editor for The Nation, and since 2003, he has been a Contributing Editor for the international literary journal, Conjunctions.

BOOKS

• Fierce Elegy. London: Penguin UK, 2024

· Fierce Elegy. Middletown: Wesleyan, 2023

· Now It's Dark. Middletown: Wesleyan, 2020

· Sky Burial: New and Selected Poems. Manchester, UK: Carcanet, 2020

· Archeophonics. Middletown: Wesleyan, 2016

· In Defense of Nothing: Selected Poems 1987–2011. Middletown: Wesleyan, 2014

· Threshold Songs. Middletown: Wesleyan, 2011

· The Outernationale. Middletown: Wesleyan, 2007

· Periplum and other poems, 1987–92. Cambridge, UK: Salt Publishers, 2004

· Some Values of Landscape and Weather. Middletown: Wesleyan, 2003

· Artificial Heart. Providence: Burning Deck, 1998

· Periplum. Penngrove: Avec Books, 1992

CHAPBOOKS & LIMITED EDITIONS

· Consider the Wound. Amsterdam NL: Tungsten Press, 2023

· Romanticism. London: Distance No Object, 2023

· Ship of State. Kingston: The Brother in Elysium, 2020

· Peter Gizzi. Cambridge: London: Earthbound Poetry Series, 2020

· The Afterlife of Paper. Los Angeles: Catalpa, 2019

· New Poems. Kingston: The Brother in Elysium, 2017

· Field Recordings. Cambridge UK: Equipage Editions, 2016

· A Winding Sheet for Summer. Amsterdam NL: Tungsten Press, 2016

· Marigold & Cable: A Garland for the New Year. Cambridge UK: Materials, 2016

· The Winter Sun Says Fight. Plymouth UK: Periplum Editions, 2016

· Vincent, Homesick for the Land of Pictures. Rotterdam, NL: Studio 3005, 2015

· Marigold & Cable. Saint-Martin, France: Shelter Press, 2014

· In the Air. Los Angeles: Manor House, 2013

· Ode: Salute to the New York School 1950-1970. Tucson: Letter Machine, 2012

· History Is Made at Night. Cincinnati: Students of Decay, 2011

· Pinocchio's Gnosis. Northampton: Song Cave, 2011

· In Song & Story. Amsterdam, NL: Tungsten Press, 2010

· Homer's Anger. Paris: Collectif Generation, 2009

· A Panic That Can Still Come Upon Me. Brooklyn: Ugly Duckling, 2006

· From a Cinematographer's Letter. London: Tolling Elves. 2004

· Revival. New Haven: Phylum Press, 2002

· Fin Amor. Oakland: Tougher Disguises, 2002

· Chateâu If. Paris: Ann Slacik Editions, 2000

· Add This to the House. Cambridge, UK: Equipage, 1999

· New Picnic Time. Buffalo: Meow Editions, 1995

· Ledger Domain. Providence: Timoleon, 1995

· Hours of the Book. Canary Islands, Spain: Zasterle Press, 1994

· Music for Films. Providence: Paradigm Press, 1992

· Creeley Madrigal. Providence: The Materials Press, 1991

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