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Author: GIZZI, PETER Matches Found: 138 Gizzi, Peter Poet's Biography 138 poems available by this author A HISTORY OF THE LYRIC Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Objects in mirror are closer Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A PANIC CAN STILL COME UPON ME Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: If today and today I am calling aloud Subject(s): Life A TEXTBOOK OF CHIVALRY Poem Text First Line: Learning how to give in to hate, or how to take, in love Last Line: Or who or what they shall become, whence written down Subject(s): O'hara, Frank (1926-1966) ADD THIS TO THE HOUSE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Not a still life into which artifice may enter Subject(s): Houses; Truth ALCHEMICAL RECAPITULATION First Line: The first departure is into air Last Line: The space where you died -- tableau vivant ANOTHER DAY ON THE PILGRIMAGE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: There is an I in space, I am, space Subject(s): Life ANOTHER DAY ON THE PILGRIMAGE First Line: There is an I in space, I am, space Last Line: Our mortgaged fear, adumbrated in kind APOCRYPHA Poem Text Subject(s): Love; Life ASSHOLE, DICKHEAD, SHIT-FOR-BRAINS First Line: Dear, if you change, I'm left without a choice Last Line: To word, word 'change' change word to thing. %so sure AT EARTH First Line: At this end there was silence, silence without earth Last Line: Cast off the bench, a ward of the state, who renouncing whom BARDO Poem Text First Line: I've spent my life Subject(s): Conduct Of Life BEGINNING WITH A PHRASE FROM SIMONE WEIL Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: There is no better time than the present when wehave lost everything. It doesn't mean rain falling Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943); Time; Loss BEGINNING WITH A PHRASE FROM SIMONE WEIL First Line: There is no better time than the present when we Last Line: No better time than the present BLUE PETER Poem Text First Line: To describe a logic of sight BLUE PETER First Line: To describe a logic of sight Last Line: A banner to the burden that all things %that are, must not be, %in me. Only, %will you not smile, wh BOLSHEVESCENT Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: You stand far from the crowd, adjacent to power. CAPTION Poem Text First Line: One less body is lost in snow CATION First Line: One less body is lost in snow Last Line: Body unlike its outline CHATEAU IF Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: If love if then if now if the flowers of if the conditional Subject(s): Weddings CREELEY MADRIGAL First Line: Where is the stamen she lost Last Line: And lunar eyes lunar whirr Subject(s): Creeley, Robert (b. 1926) DE-EVOLUTION OF THE FATHER First Line: Speaking yes, hearts yes Last Line: An evolving library / an avowed earth DEAR JACK First Line: There is a lot one might say Last Line: This declaration, insisting on kisses, %and which I gladly vote for. Love DECORATION DAY First Line: Each one here Last Line: A public where %waiting there DEMOCRATIC VISTAS First Line: Out in the day Last Line: Billy come home: the mother cries DEUS EX MMACHINA First Line: I guess if we get to be here today Last Line: Drain out of the sky into our organs DING REPAIR Recitation by Author First Line: There are too many skateboards here, too many waves Subject(s): California; Conduct Of Life; Surfing DING REPAIR First Line: There are too many skateboards here, too many Last Line: Their sequence and the useless treasure of an ending ECLOGUES Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: This clock, entitled simply, my life speaks at irregular intervals Subject(s): Time EDGAR POE Poem Text Subject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849) FABLES OF CRITIQUE First Line: You are not outside this film (or movie) Last Line: And this is (was) your future FACADES FOR THERON WARE: 1. First Line: This photograph, mine, reproduces Last Line: A purpose in life, without ever %trying to look for illumination FACADES FOR THERON WARE: 2. First Line: What was the novel telling, so Last Line: A cadence that bears no resemblance %to the actual rooms we enter FACADES FOR THERON WARE: 3. First Line: However variegated, repeitition %exacts its tribute upon our Last Line: Or recorded, no matter, even %simple activity expires into song FACADES FOR THERON WARE: 4. First Line: The heart hidden, or worn on Last Line: The one you were looking for %over there. In letters FACADES FOR THERON WARE: 5. First Line: To restore the voice behind Last Line: Dust. These remedies maintaining %a kingdom. Or just overnight FACADES FOR THERON WARE: 6. First Line: Reassurance, a cadenza: %this richness that grows as Last Line: Thing. Here elaborations come %to play a surface into rapture FACADES FOR THERON WARE: 7. First Line: She was walking a phantom line Last Line: Beyond recollection, the same way %memory is unmistaken for memory FACADES FOR THERON WARE: 8. First Line: Farewell is a token we give or Last Line: Of meaning. Know this by the lines %on your face, hands, and throat FACADES FOR THERON WARE: 9. First Line: It was a difficult beauty, tracing Last Line: What I believe, the door to my head %will not open from the outside FEAR OF MUSIC First Line: She put the sugar on my tongue, right there Last Line: Off in the distance singing from a tree FIN AMOR: CHATEAU IF First Line: If love if then if now if fleur de if the conditional if of Last Line: City that overtakes the city I write %if in provence FIN AMOR: JUST A LITTLE GREEN UNTITLED First Line: An oblique memory informed my animal Last Line: Color of my true love's hair FIN AMOR: LOCAL FORECAST First Line: The whole thing is a lie, often Last Line: Out of the rain I found you walking %out of a storm you rescued me' FIN AMOR: PLAIN SONG First Line: Some day a baby cries for the life to come Last Line: Some say love some light some say the dark some %heaven FIN AMOR: SOMETHING IN BLUE First Line: Blue everywhere in the sounds we make dissolves, a Last Line: Are like that-blue, outside, on a stare FOR PLEASURE First Line: Sigh me more,' moron, sigh me more! Last Line: May the earth always be in your way' FROM A FIELD GLASS First Line: This street begins outside a factory Last Line: Their game will become an entire century HARD AS ASH Poem Text First Line: Some trees cannot grow without fire. Subject(s): Fire HARD AS ASH First Line: Some trees cannot grow without fire Last Line: The day I gave my wedding dress away HEART HAS ITS REASONS First Line: It is that white stone Last Line: And bring the food you have HOW TO CARE FOR A SMALL BIRD Poem Text First Line: Given the baby bird crisis, what if Subject(s): Birds HOW TO CARE FOR A SMALL BIRD First Line: Given the baby bird crisis, what if Last Line: Doing the best it can HYPOSTASIS & NEW YEAR Poem Text First Line: For why am I afraid to sing IMITATION OF LIFE: A MINI SERIES First Line: The chill came after the transmitter blew Last Line: Coming from an abandoned parking lot IN DEFENSE OF NOTHING Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I guess these trailers lined up in the lot off the highway will do IT WAS RAINING IN DELFT Poem Text First Line: A cornerstone. Marble pilings. Curbstones and brick. Subject(s): Love; Separation JUST A LITTLE GREEN UNLOVED Recitation by Author Subject(s): Love LAST CIGAR First Line: A ball drops from a high place, its orbit spent Last Line: The song sang, smoke in your eyes, right? LEDGER DOMAIN Poem Text First Line: A morning's silver announces sky Subject(s): Cadiot, Olivier; Language; Books LEDGER DOMAIN First Line: A morning's silver announces sky Last Line: My smile is what the children say Subject(s): Cadiot, Olivier LEVIATHAN Recitation by Author LEXICON'S SON AWAKENS First Line: He's having a mad day Last Line: Are renamed/signed %mr. Wizard LIFE CONTINUES First Line: Life continues while the telephone intersects continuity with another party Last Line: You too and you and you and you LINES DEPICTING SIMPLE HAPPINESS Poem Text First Line: The shine on her buckle took precedence in sun Subject(s): Love LONELY TYLENOL Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: You have to begin somewhere Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States LONELY TYLENOL First Line: You have to begin somewhere Last Line: There there. No place like home Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States LULLABY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Everyone's listening to someone in the air MAHLER'S 2ND First Line: In the beginning was the worm and worm turned to sod MASTERS OF CONTE JONDO Recitation by Author Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs MASTERS OF THE CANTE JONDO: 1 First Line: They were beside me, %they sat in black taffeta, in veils, leather chaps Last Line: A room where countenance continues to fall, %a retinue of hair MASTERS OF THE CANTE JONDO: 2 First Line: There were words in the garage Last Line: To explain the history of that place MASTERS OF THE CANTE JONDO: 3 First Line: It was a structure- %cactus flowers, lipstick Last Line: Upon a time %and goes like this MASTERS OF THE CANTE JONDO: 4 First Line: I know where you are because I knows %where the sun is' Last Line: This sound is my body Variant Title(s): The Body Abstract Postulates A Sou MASTERS OF THE CANTE JONDO: 5 First Line: And my body' %what ground is this? Last Line: The great-coats walk by, let them MASTERS OF THE CANTE JONDO: 6 First Line: To walk, was walking, in the capitol Last Line: By sparrows at dusk %invisible against dusk MASTERS OF THE CANTE JONDO: 7 First Line: Many days since this letter, I want to report Last Line: Whose breeze is only song, a body when no one sees it MIDWIFE'S COMPLAINT First Line: If there were something could be said Last Line: And in others will occur speech MONDE DES JOUETS First Line: This is a secret and silent world Last Line: On shelves in catalogs, and can be classified, %mistakenly, for always MORNING & MATERIALITY First Line: The gray suit. A boulevard. Reveille Last Line: Local color bleeds into the river NEW PICNIC TIME First Line: Out of this close horizon there are animals Last Line: Uncanny earth. A funny thing to feel NEWS AT ELEVEN First Line: The treatment of the missing fare Last Line: A feeling of security %is an operation of trompe l'oeil %employed at all the seams %to appear invisi OBJECTS IN MIRROR ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR First Line: They are right next to you Last Line: An avant garde, %a backward glance ODE: SALUTE TO THE NEW YORK SCHOOL, 1950-1970 First Line: A car roars over a conversation Last Line: Plow on the flat land ON WHAT BECAME OF MATHEW BRADY€™S BATTLE PHOTOGRAPHS Recitation by Author Subject(s): Brady, Matthew (1823-1896) OVERSONG Recitation by Author OVERTAKELESSNESS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: To speak inaudibly, the outside, Subject(s): History; Historians OVERTAKELESSNESS First Line: To speak inaudibly, the outside Last Line: Are pleasing. No history is clear PERIPLUM Recitation by Author First Line: Put your map right with the world PHYSICIST EXPLAINS First Line: This sentence has been traveling PIERCED Recitation by Author Subject(s): Poetry & Poets PIERCED First Line: The heart of poetry is fatigue Last Line: Two cars race toward the horizon PLAIN SONG Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Some say a baby cries for life to come POEM FOR JOHN WIENERS First Line: I am not a poet Last Line: As my eyes grow into the evolved dark PROTEST SONG Recitation by Author First Line: This is not a declaration of love or a song of war Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Poetry & Poets; Iraq War (2003-2011); Anti-war Protests QUESTION OF SCALE First Line: Thick as a ripple in a stagnant tide pool Last Line: Combined will stand, walk, and sometimes, fly REDON First Line: Spider webs are scarier Last Line: Your dinky atomic %clock, o? REED Poem Text First Line: Who can't explain to you Subject(s): Spicer, Jack (1925-1965) REED First Line: Who can't explain to you Last Line: You will never listen Subject(s): Spicer, Jack (1925-1965) REVERSE SONG First Line: Not because there is a road Last Line: Her gait, her motion, her speed REVIVAL Recitation by Author Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States; Corso, Gregory (1930-2001) REWRITING THE OTHER AND THE OTHERS First Line: I wanted to model the morning light Last Line: And a noisy sphere, a bird strafes air REWRITING THE OTHER, AND THE OTHERS Poem Text First Line: I wanted to model the morning light Subject(s): Farewell; Parting SALT First Line: Your outline stalls loudly Last Line: Above a rock, dividing Subject(s): Spicer, Jack (1925-1965) SEVERAL VISTAS First Line: Of death. And even that crust of representation they belong to Last Line: Put away your notebook, and unbind that lovely aspect of boy SOMETHING IN BLUE Poem Text First Line: Blue everywhere in the sounds we make, dissolves Subject(s): Blue (color) SONG OF A LEXICON First Line: It is not simple to say Last Line: Behind a neighborhood %a vacant sign SONG OF A WOODCUTTER First Line: You are in me like a new kite Last Line: It grows--alive on a blue floor SONG OF THE INTERIOR BEGIN First Line: Some sky of hydraulic Last Line: Into blouse of %air go there! SONG: TELEVISION INSIDE First Line: Having seen davinci's hands Last Line: Appear in the corner of an eye SONG: TRANSLATIONS FROM A LOST COPY First Line: Who listens to the noise the stones make? Last Line: All of the transmission for now SORE THROAT First Line: The throat is %sore for a %word. It is Last Line: No other %boy will do' SORE THROAT First Line: I'm inventing a machine Last Line: -you're wrong: he just left a mess SORE THROAT First Line: Last to know, and out of the mind, always Last Line: Talking and laughter. I wonder why you are weeping with %your brother, the moron SPECK Poem Text First Line: Single the sky, pulled taut above earth SPECK First Line: Single the sky, pulled taut above earth Last Line: The sparrows lighting outside his window STARS OF TRACK AND FIELD Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: To voice a routine, the forest and bird it sings inside SURFACE AND DEPTH PERFORM A DUET FOR JOSEPH CORNELLA NARROW First Line: Depth of the multiple Last Line: Filled with brilliant birds TEXTBOOK OF CHIVALRY First Line: Learning how to give in to hate, or how to take, in love Last Line: Or who or what they shall become, whence written down Subject(s): O'hara, Frank (1926-1966) THE MOONLIGHT DEFENSE Poem Text First Line: Why shouldn't it begin at midnight Subject(s): Night; Bedtime THE OUTERNATIONALE Recitation by Author First Line: The sun deploys its shadows THE QUEST Poem Text Recitation THIRTY SENTENCES FOR NO ONE Recitation by Author Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives TO BE WRITTEN IN NO OTHER COUNTRY First Line: Now it is time for the scratch ticket Last Line: To the garage and to the porch TO HIS WIFE FAR OFF IN A TIME OF WAR Poem Text First Line: That you are not among the winter branches Subject(s): Separation; Marital Love TOUS LES MATINS DU MONDE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Goodness is hard on the body, TOUS LES MATINS DU MONDE First Line: Goodness is hard on the body Last Line: With pure speed I address you, reality TOY Poem Text First Line: You resist an ocean evaporating outside your head Subject(s): Spicer, Jack (1925-1965) TOY First Line: You resist an ocean evaporating outside your head Last Line: Making sure to hide your giddy surface Subject(s): Spicer, Jack (1925-1965) TRUANCY: A TEXTBOOK CASE First Line: Children uncover fear behind words Last Line: Behind the fear of the lot and the lake TRUE DISCOURSE ON POWER Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: When I say the ghost has begun TRUTH & LIFE OF PRONOUNS First Line: The truth and life of pronouns falls to the next in line Last Line: That will lead to that name. That face. That noun UNTITLED AMHERST SPECTER Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: A sound of open ground having been taken Subject(s): War UTOPIA PARKWAY Poem Text First Line: The object is the space UTOPIA PARKWAY First Line: The object is the space Last Line: And the sun also hung as fruit VINCENT, HOMESICK FOR THE LAND OF PICTURES Poem Text First Line: Is this what you intended, vincent Subject(s): Paintings & Painters WILL CALL First Line: There is an order to the skyline Last Line: And these are the stories they will bring in boxes WIND First Line: Who isn't a stranger collating stones Last Line: The song, the street, the house, the shower ZERO ELEGY First Line: We thought a garden Last Line: Pledging itself %a happy fate |
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