Peter Gizzi

Peter Gizzi is the author of Some Values of Landscape and Weather, Artificial Heart, and Periplum and Other Poems 1987–1992. He teaches at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

The Ingenuity of Animal Survival

Deep in the enzyme is the shape of home.

Deep in the code is the architecture to nest.

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I Wanted the Screen Door of Summer

Opening sounds of blackbirds everywhere
everywhere in the day lost in sun

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The Quest

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Objects in Mirror Are Closer than They Appear

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Beginning with a Phrase from Simone Weil

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