CITY LIGHTS LIVE! Peter Gizzi in conversation with CA Conrad

Peter Gizzi reads from
Now It's Dark: New Poems
published by Wesleyan University Press
The poems in this brilliant follow-up to the National Book Award finalist Archeophonics, are concerned with grieving, with poetry and death, with beauty and sadness, with light. As Ben Lerner has written, "Gizzi's poetry is an example of how a poet's total tonal attention can disclose new orders of sensation and meaning. His beautiful lines are full of deft archival allusion." With litany, elegy, and prose, Gizzi continues his pursuit toward a lyric of reality. Saturated with luminous detail, these original poems possess, even in their sorrowing moments, a dizzying freedom.
To learn more about "Now It's Dark: New Poems" visit:
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Peter Gizzi is the author of eight collections of poetry including Archeophonics, Threshold Songs, and In Defense of Nothing: Selected Poems, 1987-2011. He has also published several limited-edition chapbooks, folios, and artist books. He lives in Holyoke, MA. Visit: www.petergizzi.org/
CAConrad has been working with the ancient technologies of poetry and ritual since 1975. They are the author of Amanda Paradise, forthcoming from Wave Books in 2021. Their book While Standing in Line for Death won a Lambda Literary Award. They also received a Creative Capital grant, a Pew Fellowship, and a Believer Magazine Book Award. They teach at Columbia University in New York City and Sandberg Art Institute in Amsterdam. Please view their books, essays, recordings, and upcoming events at bit.ly/88CAConrad
This event was originally broadcast on Thursday January 28, 2021 in the zoom platform and was hosted by Peter Maravelis.
Sponsored by the City Lights Foundation

[@caconrad9520]

I hope this convinces everyone to buy this amazing new Gizzi book!!!

[@johnphillips2147]

It's a fine book, as usual from Peter Gizzi. I enjoyed your questions, too. They led him to interesting places.

[@colinschmidt3475]

You and Peter are such splendid poets. Thanks for bringing such insight and compassion to a difficult world.