Sky Burial

New and Selected Poems

Gizzi Peter

In 1995 Carcanet published "The Exact Change Yearbook" edited by Carcanet poet Michael Palmer and by Peter Gizzi, then at the beginning of his career. The issue featured writing by Gertrude Stein, Barbara Guest, Jack Spicer (whose work Gizzi has edited), J. H. Prynne, Clark Coolidge and other avant garde writers; it also featured portfolios of new writing from China, the Caribbean and the UK, and a CD of readings by Ashbery, Brathwaite, Berrigan. "Exact Change" gives an indication of the breadth of poetic interests that informs Gizzi's poetry – its scope and scale. He is a prolific writer,and thirty years of his work are here, in Sky Burial, essentialised for a new, and reconfigured for his long-term, readership. The book includes previously uncollected work.

Gizzi has twice received the Judith E. Wilson Visiting Fellowshipin Poetry at the University of Cambridge. "Archeophonics" (2016) was afinalist for the National Book Award.

About the Author

Peter Gizzi is the author of eight collections of poetry, most recently, "Archeophonics" (Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award), "In Defense of Nothing", and "Threshold Songs". His honors include the Lavan Younger Poet Award from the Academy of American Poets, and fellowships in poetry from The Rex Foundation, The Howard Foundation, The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He has twice been the recipient of The Judith E. Wilson Visiting Fellowship in Poetry at the University of Cambridge. His editing projects have included o·blek: a journal of language arts, "The Exact Change Yearbook", "The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer", and, with Kevin Killian, "My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer". He is on the faculty at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

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