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    Archeophonics

    By Peter Gizzi

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    Archeophonics is the first collection of new work from the poet Peter Gizzi in five years. Archeophonics, defined as the archeology of lost sound, is one way of understanding the role and the task of poetry: to recover the buried sounds and shapes of languages in the tradition of the art, and the multitude of private connections that lie undisclosed in one's emotional memory. The book takes seriously the opening epigraph by the late great James Schuyler: "poetry, like music, is not just song." It recognizes that the poem is not a decorative art object but a means of organizing the world, in the words of anthropologist Clifford Geertz, "into transient examples of shaped behavior." Archeophonics is a series of discrete poems that are linked by repeated phrases and words, and its themes and nothing less than joy, outrage, loss, transhistorical thought, and day-to-day life. It is a private book of public and civic concerns.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWesleyan University Press
    Release dateSep 6, 2016
    ISBN9780819576811
    Archeophonics
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    Peter Gizzi

    Peter Gizzi is the author of many collections of poetry including Fierce Elegy, Now It's Dark, Threshold Songs, Archeophonics 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.

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      Archeophonics - Peter Gizzi

      Archeophonics

      I’m just visiting this voice

      I’m just visiting the molecular structures

      that say what I am saying

      I am just visiting the world at this moment

      and it’s on fire

      It’s always been on fire

      I’m saying this and it’s saying me

      That’s how it works, seesaw like

      The archive in the mouth and the archive is on fire

      That’s the story

      The sun and the body and the body in the sun

      It was like this just like this

      The world that’s coming toward me

      And the world around me

      Around me are words saying this

      saying fire

      Saying something or all of it

      Field Recordings

      For today’s tourist, orientation is impossible

      —RIMBAUD

      LANGUOR

      The old language

      is the old language,

      with its lance and greaves,

      broken shields

      and hammered vowels;

      a stairway ascending

      into a mirror—see it

      climb the old helix,

      beneath a scarred

      and chipped northerly sky,

      rotunda blue.

      Sing genetic cloud forms

      mirroring the syntax

      in reflection, and what

      would you have?

      Paving stones, rhetoric,

      the coping of bridges,

      leanings, what

      is taken from res?

      To reconstruct? To re-

      cognize the categories

      have failed? That

      the index was a lyre.

      The lists have

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