Threshold Songs by Peter Gizzi

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Wesleyan University Press, paperback

Publication Date: October 24, 2012

Publisher Marketing: A series of private and ecstatic meditations on living and dying.
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.

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