Today’s Word Is Invisible: On Peter Gizzi’s Fierce Elegy (Wesleyan University Press, 2023)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Editors’ Foreword 3
3. Table of Contents 7
4. From Emissaries 13
5. (Make Of Yourself) An Instrument Of Day 22
6. Spider 24
7. Reclining Woman 27
8. Blue Territory 29
9. Grafts I, III, IV, I 31
10. [notes for a dance w/jug] 35
11. Seeing Double 36
12. open/close 43
13. The Stolen Note 44
14. Fake Flowers 46
15. Blue-Collar Beauty 47
16. Father’s Day 48
17. An Interview with Sam Messer 51
18. Still from Red Darkness, hand-colored etching, 2017 59
19. Meeting a Stranger 64
20. Inside Blue 66
21. Letter to My Future Self as a Previously Incarcerated Writer 67
22. From Les formes qu’illes habitent en temps de crise 70
23. Sacramento Adoptionis 71
24. The Silence of Those Who Cannot Speak 72
25. On the Limits of Empathy, Which May in Themselves Be Transcendent 74
26. The Wages of Mysticism 76
27. An Aching of Earth 77
28. For John 78
29. The Salesman 79
30. Dois Poemas De Amor À Morte 90
31. Two Mineiro Poems on the Love of Death 92
32. Preparando A Casa 94
33. Getting Ready the House 95
34. Eles Estão Se Adiantando 96
35. They Are Moving Along 97
36. Na casa de Elizabeth Bishop 98
37. At Bishop’s House 99
38. The Wall Follower 100
39. Trembling Stone 101
40. River Attachments 102
41. Tracing Place I 103
42. Drawing 73 104
43. Drawing 85 105
44. 2301(i), 2301 (ii) & 2301 (iii), 2023 106
45. Haunt, or, In the Atelier 107
46. An Ice-skating Rink in the Crater of Vesuvius 108
47. Jo Langdon 110
48. Agnus Dei 113
49. In the Borrowed Room 120
50. A List Resurfaces on My Desk 121
51. Navajo Mountain 122
52. Chalice 124
53. The Wickedness of God 126
54. File me between your lovers, maybe, please? 127
55. Looper-er 128
56. Collages 130
57. Moonrise 132
58. Novas 133
59. Swarm 134
60. Antoine Fauchery Leads Mirka Mora to Melbourne: A Mosaic 135
61. Jackals and Owls, from The Four Winds 143
62. V., from Lucretius My Lucretius 146
63. V., from Lucretius My Lucretius 148
64. Tutuguri, Le rite du soleil noir 154
65. Hieroglyphics 155
66. Video stills from “My Half of the Sky 157
67. Virtue 159
68. Blackhearted Lover 161
69. Blue 162
70. Abandoned Love Sonnet #7 164
71. Broken Sonnet #13 165
72. Flemish Primitivism 166
73. From Les formes qu’illes habitent en temps de crise 168
74. A Slice of Sardine and Bury Mush Flounder 169
75. Memoir 171
76. Catherine Noonan 176
77. Seven Clouds 187
78. Dash Dot Dash 189
79. Secret Growing 191
80. Leafy Screen 192
81. A Hole is a Home (Komodo) 193
82. Layers of Days 194
83. Today’s Word Is Invisible: On Peter Gizzi’s Fierce Elegy (Wesleyan University Press, 2023) 195
84. ‘Carry Me There, Bright, Burning and Alive’: A Review of Deep Are These Distances Between Us by Susan Atefat-Peckham (CavanKerry Press, 2023) 200
85. Haramkhor 206
86. UCP 003 207
87. Mouth open to her 208
88. A Visit to Merwin’s Garden 209
89. From Radii 221
90. Me and My Sister in Hats at the Top of the Temple 224
91. Bob, En Français 226
92. Clatter 228
93. You Had Me at Premier Cru 229
94. Come, No Longer Unthinkable 231
95. Thoughts on Joy 233
96. Folio: Anti-letters
97. Editors’ Foreword 241
98. Letter to Master, [If you saw a bullet hit a bird/ No rose, yet felt myself a’bloom] 248
99. Note 250
100. (Untitled) 251
101. The Elusive Pursuit of Happiness 253
102. The Elusive Pursuit of Happiness 255
103. Note 256
104. Stand 258
105. My Parents Debate the Afterlife 260
106. Absences 262
107. Shark in the Pool 265
108. Note 267
109. From Concordance 268
110. Note 270
111. From “Love and the Heretic: An Anti-Lecture” 271
112. Note 277
113. “The Open Stone”: Literacy, Transcription, and Poetry by way of Paulo Freire, Akilah Oliver, and Tim Ingold 280
114. Note 293
115. A.M. says it sibboleth 295
116. SIGRID of the brick wall trick 297
117. A.M. dreams himself the Common Horse 298
118. SIGRID of being repurposed 299
119. A.M. Safety drill in the underground laboratory 300
120. Note 302
121. From This Household of Earthly Nature 304
122. From This Household of Earthly Nature 307
123. THISISLANDEARTH from The Grimace of Eden, Now 312
124. Note 318
125. Essay 321
126. Essay II 333
127. Essay III 337
128. Essay 343
129. Essay 348
130. Acknowledgements 350
131. Contributors 352