Peter Gizzi

• Poetry Selections
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  • Utopia Parkway
  • Just Behind the Day (Toy)
  • Just Behind the Day (Reed)
  • Rewriting the Other and the Others
  • Fear Of Music

About the Poet

Peter Gizzi was born in 1959 and grew up in western Massachusetts. His publications include Periplum (1992), Music for Films (1992), Hours of the Book (1994), and two recent chapbooks: Ledger Domain (1995) and New Picnic Time (1995). In 1994 he received the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets, selected by John Ashbery. His poems have recently appeared in the Best American Poetry 1995, Sixty Years of American Poetry and The Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative North America Poetry 1993-94 and again in 1995-1996. His editing projects have included o·blêk: a journal of language arts (1987-93) and the Exact Change Yearbook (1995). He currently teaches at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

The six poems here are from Artificial Heart, and have previously appeared in Apex of the M, Avec, Chicago Review, Conjunctions, and Sulfur.