Book description
About Threshold Songs, the voices in these poems perform at the
interior thresholds encountered each day, where we negotiate the
unfathomable proximities of knowing and not knowing, the gulf of seeing
and feeling, the uncanny relation of grief to joy, and the borderless
nature of selfhood and tradition. Both conceptual and haunted, these
poems explore the asymmetry of the body's chemistry and its effects on
expression and form. The poems in Threshold Songs tune us to the
microtonal music of speaking and being spoken. "(Gizzi's)
innovation has been to treat the lyric like a big radio antenna,
simultaneously transmitting and receiving eerie broadcasts from the
air." --Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker PETER GIZZI is the author of
The Outernationale, Some Values of Landscape and Weather, Artificial
Heart, and Periplum. He teaches at the University of Massachusetts,
Amherst.
