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Fierce Elegy, Paperback / softback Book

Fierce Elegy Paperback / softback

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The powerful new collection from legendary American poet Peter Gizzi, reckoning with the transformative power of elegy through poems of lament and love‘I am awestruck, dumbfounded … a masterwork’ Ocean Vuong'Transcendent ...

He identifies the thing we're all searching for' The New YorkerIn Fierce Elegy, Peter Gizzi contends with a decade of grief, and learns to transform a broken heart into new strength.

These are poems of loss; of love; of the strangeness of being a self amid the fury of the world; and of our ongoing closeness with the dead.

They are soaring yet grounded, vulnerable and brave.

Ears attuned, grip assured. Mind free.

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