Peter Gizzi
There is only this season
and the missing pomegranate seeds
the myth of childhood happiness
and water dreams
for the body is an instrument
Lost children are really not lost
in the woods
you come upon an enthusiast
her name is a labyrinth
she will affix petals to your lips
saying "bad magic is a false tooth
bearing bad blood to your heart."
PETER GIZZI was born in 1959 and grew up in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. His
publications include: Artificial Heart (Burning Deck, 1997), Hours of the Book
(Zasterle, 1994), Periplum (Avec, 1992), and the chapbooks: Ledger Domain
(Timoleon, 1995), New Picnic Time (Meow, 1995), and Music for Films (Paradigm,
1992). His poems have been anthologized in the Best American Poetry 1995
(Scribners), Sixty Years of American Poetry (Abrams), 49 + 1 Nouveaux Poetes
Americains (Royaumont), and The Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative North
America Poetry 1993-94 and again in 1994-95 (Sun & Moon). In 1994 he received
the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets.
His editing projects have included o.blek: a journal of language arts
(1987-93), the international literary annual, Exact Change Yearbook (1995), and
an edition of Jack Spicer's lectures forthcoming from Wesleyan University
Press.
He holds degrees from New York University, Brown University, and SUNY at
Buffalo. In 1993-94 he was a Visiting Poet in the Graduate Program in Creative
Writing at Brown University. He currently teaches at the University of
California, Santa Cruz.
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