[Wgcp-whc] Peter Gizzi, tonight and tomorrow

[Richard Deming]

Dear All--

just a reminder that Peter Gizzi reads tonight:

Peter Gizzi
Thursday, November 5 at 7:00, LC 317
Peter Gizzi’s books include The Outernationale, Some Values of  
Landscape and Weather, Artificial Heart, and Periplum and other poems  
1987-92. His many honors include the Lavan Younger Poet Award from the  
Academy of American Poets and Guggenheim Fellowship. He is the editor  
of The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer  
and, with Kevin Killian, of My Vocabulary Did This To Me: The  
Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer. Currently he teaches at the  
University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Presented by the Contemporary Poetry Colloquium and the Graduates  
Poets’ Reading Series.





Tomorrow, he meets with the WGCP from 3-5 in room 116 of the Whitney  
Humanities Center. All are welcome!



Also a last footnote: Jennifer Gross sends along the Van Gogh image  
below:  she wanted to follow up her point at our last session about  
Gizzi's poem "Vincent, Homesick for the Land of Pictures," and how the  
cadence and imagery in it reminded her of this very specific Van Gogh,  
the very last painting he made in his life. Specifically, Jennifer was  
also thinking in terms of the bifurcation of the painting (along the  
horizon) and the way Gizzi's poem reverses the lines of the first half  
in the second half of the poem, so that the poem, as well as the  
painting, have a sutured effect.



  
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