Artificial Heart [Paperback]

Peter Gizzi (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1998

Poetry. "There is a darkness at the heart of Peter Gizzi's new collection of poems, ARTIFICIAL HEART, that is far from artificial...The title accurately locates the site of writing as the "heart of artifice." In realizing emptiness, the poems start a flow of current , a darker circulation within the darkness-and in doing so, initiate a movement toward regeneration, if not redemption" -Andrew Joron, HAMBONE.

Editorial Reviews

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Another Day On The Pilgrimage
At Earth
Cation
Creeley Madrigal
The De-evolution Of The Father
Decoration Day
Ding Repair
Fables Of Critique
Fear Of Music
From A Field Glass
How To Care For A Small Bird
Last Cigar
Ledger Domain
Lonely Tylenol
Morning & Materiality
New Picnic Time
Pierced
The Question Of Scale
Reed
Rewriting The Other And The Others
Salt
Several Vistas
Speck
A Textbook Of Chivalry
Tous Les Matins Du Monde
Toy
The Truth & Life Of Pronouns
Utopia Parkway
Will Call
Zero Elegy
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Burning Deck (January 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1886224218
• ISBN-13: 978-1886224216
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.9 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #319,190 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderfully inventive exploration of "the heart of poetry", December 4, 1998

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This review is from: Artificial Heart (Paperback)

In ARTIFICIAL HEART, Peter Gizzi, one of the most exuberantly talented poets of his generation, a poet drunk with his love of words, combines a rigorous interrogation of the act of utterance with a determination to save and renew the tropes of chivalry, to rescue both the individual beloved and the world as object of devotion. "When goodbye is the operative word/forgiveness is either easy or impossible," Gizzi writes, and it's his goal to transform that easy impossibility into the impossibly easy. "Once upon a once there was a once/and that once evaporated into air": in ARTIFICIAL HEART, Peter Gizzi conjures up that never-to-return "once" and permits us to reside there (in air) for an impossible, beautiful moment.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars P GIZZA is in the house, September 2, 2002

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This review is from: Artificial Heart (Paperback)

This is the best book since Peter Gizzi invented books. I, The Blaze knits an isthmus in this, his second full length collection. Blip, blip P GIZZA is in the house. This book is so good I almost peed my pants when I read it. I went right down pawn shop & sold all my UZIs to buy a typewriter. No joke, yo. I wish Peter Gizzi were my uncle.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars best book I've read in years, August 30, 2005

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Robert Musgrove "Musgrovia" (El Paso, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Artificial Heart (Paperback)

This book blew my mind. If you like great modern poetry, Stevens, Williams, Oppen, etc., check this out. Especially long poems like "Ding Repair" and "Pierced." This is a smart lyric poetry that has the urgency of a broadcast from the end of the world, with all of history behind it. It's got great music all the way through. Gizzi rocks!