Archeophonics
By Peter Gizzi
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Archeophonics is the first collection of new work from the poet Peter Gizzi in five years. Archeophonics, defined as the archeology of lost sound, is one way of understanding the role and the task of poetry: to recover the buried sounds and shapes of languages in the tradition of the art, and the multitude of private connections that lie undisclosed in one's emotional memory. The book takes seriously the opening epigraph by the late great James Schuyler: "poetry, like music, is not just song." It recognizes that the poem is not a decorative art object but a means of organizing the world, in the words of anthropologist Clifford Geertz, "into transient examples of shaped behavior." Archeophonics is a series of discrete poems that are linked by repeated phrases and words, and its themes and nothing less than joy, outrage, loss, transhistorical thought, and day-to-day life. It is a private book of public and civic concerns.
Peter Gizzi
Peter Gizzi is the author of many collections of poetry including Fierce Elegy, Now It's Dark, Threshold Songs, Archeophonics and In Defense of Nothing: Selected Poems, 1987–2011. He has also published several limited-edition chapbooks, folios, and artist books. He lives in Holyoke, MA.
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Archeophonics - Peter Gizzi
Archeophonics
I’m just visiting this voice
I’m just visiting the molecular structures
that say what I am saying
I am just visiting the world at this moment
and it’s on fire
It’s always been on fire
I’m saying this and it’s saying me
That’s how it works, seesaw like
The archive in the mouth and the archive is on fire
That’s the story
The sun and the body and the body in the sun
It was like this just like this
The world that’s coming toward me
And the world around me
Around me are words saying this
saying fire
Saying something or all of it
Field Recordings
For today’s tourist, orientation is impossible
—RIMBAUD
LANGUOR
The old language
is the old language,
with its lance and greaves,
broken shields
and hammered vowels;
a stairway ascending
into a mirror—see it
climb the old helix,
beneath a scarred
and chipped northerly sky,
rotunda blue.
Sing genetic cloud forms
mirroring the syntax
in reflection, and what
would you have?
Paving stones, rhetoric,
the coping of bridges,
leanings, what
is taken from res?
To reconstruct? To re-
cognize the categories
have failed? That
the index was a lyre.
The lists have