Fierce Elegy
喪失と死別をめぐる感情を、光と音楽を帯びた短い詩篇へと結晶させた詩集。厳しい主題を扱いながらも、重さだけに沈まず、ユーモアや親密さを保っている。
作品情報
悲しみを、歩み続けるための強さへと変えていく。
Peter Gizziの『Fierce Elegy』は、友人や家族、そして自身の病をめぐる経験を背景に、エレジーという形式をあらためて生きた言葉として組み直す。簡潔な詩行のあいだに、痛みと明るさ、孤独と連帯が同居し、読後に深い余韻を残す。
レビュー要約
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簡潔でありながら豊かな響きを持ち、悲しみを語るだけでなく、生の感触を強く残すところが評価されている。重い題材を抱えながらも、冷たさより温度のある読み味が印象に残る。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Penguin
- 発売日
- 2024-07-04
- ページ数
- 80ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 12.9 x 0.6 x 19.8 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781802065244
- ISBN-10
- 1802065245
- 価格
- 2621 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Self-Help/Death & Grief
WINNER OF THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZE 2024 The powerful new collection from legendary American poet Peter Gizzi, reckoning with the transformative power of elegy through poems of lament and love ‘I am awestruck, dumbfounded … a masterwork’ Ocean Vuong 'Transcendent ... He identifies the thing we're all searching for' The New Yorker In Fierce Elegy , Peter Gizzi contends with a decade of grief, and learns to transform a broken heart into new strength. These are poems of loss; of love; of the strangeness of being a self amid the fury of the world; and of our ongoing closeness with the dead. They are soaring yet grounded, vulnerable and brave. Ears attuned, grip assured. Mind free.
Peter Gizzi is the author of many collections of poetry including Now It’s Dark (2020), Archeophonics, a finalist for the National Book Award (2016), Threshold Songs (2011), and In Defense of Nothing: Selected Poems, 1987–2011 (2014). He has also published several limited-edition chapbooks, folios, and artist books. Marjorie Perloff has called him ‘a master of the mot juste ’; Robert Creeley, ‘one of the most exceptional poets of his generation’. Adrienne Rich has said ‘his disturbing lyricism is like no other’; and John Ashbery thought him ‘the most exciting new poet to come along in quite a while’. He lives in Holyoke, MA.
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Heavy as lead on sparse imagery, fragmented syntax.
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Gizzi’s poems are deceptively simple. His focus on the past, on loss, is nevertheless a life-affirming exercise. In “But the Heart in a Sense Is Far from Me Floating Out There” he assures us that holding on to both abstract memories and the details of the past are what makes us human… “Hold onto whatever magic in the backyard where we bury our thoughts, things of the world/ Things of the world like an afterlife of the world to bury our setting outness”
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Some of these poems worked for me and some didn't. Some of the more 'prosey' pieces in particular seemed weaker. The best of the poems were strong.
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