Threshold Songs

By Peter Gizzi

Book Overview

A series of private and ecstatic meditations on living and dying

About Threshold Songs, the voices in these poems perform at the interior thresholds encountered each day, where we negotiate the unfathomable proximities of knowing and not knowing, the gulf of seeing and feeling, the uncanny relation of grief to joy, and the borderless nature of selfhood and tradition. Both conceptual and haunted, these poems explore the asymmetry of the body's chemistry and its effects on expression and form. The poems in Threshold Songs tune us to the microtonal music of speaking and being spoken. Check for the online reader's companion at http: //petergizzi.site.wesleyan.edu.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819571741
• ISBN13: 9780819571748
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up