Fierce Elegy

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.