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- Threshold Songs
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- 2012
- Published by: Wesleyan University Press
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry Program
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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.
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- Table of Contents
- pp. vii-xvi
- The Growing Edge
- pp. 1-3
- Hypostasis & New Year
- pp. 6-8
- Eye of the Poem
- pp. 11-12
- Snow Globe
- p. 13
- Pinocchio’s Gnosis
- pp. 30-36
- Basement Song
- pp. 37-40
- Tiny Blast
- p. 41
- A Ghost Card for Robert
- pp. 42-43
- Moonlight & Old Lace
- pp. 44-45
- Tradition & the Indivisible Talent
- pp. 46-48
- A Penny for the Old Guy
- pp. 51-52
- A Note on the Text
- pp. 59-60
- True Discourse on Power
- pp. 61-63
- History Is Made at Night
- pp. 66-75
- Modern Adventures at Sea
- pp. 81-85
- Acknowledgements
- pp. 86-88
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