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Fierce Elegy Home RadioPeter Gizzi Peter Gizzi's powerful new collection reminds us that the elegy is lament but alsoas it has been for centuriesa work of love. Peter Gizzi has said that "the elegy is a mode that can transform a broken heart in a fierce world into a fierce heart in a broken world." For Gizzi, ferocity can be reimagined as vulnerability, bravery and discovery, a braiding of emotional and otherworldly depth, "a holding open." In Gizzi's voice joy and sorrow

and an inventory of figureheads

The White Book is a letter from Kang to her sister

en aan het Zich bezingende Het (‘Dit is een handreiking

zijn schitterende en vaak ontroerende beeldspraak

Jörgen Gario ‘UNOM’

waving to twenty-eight year old revolutionary generals from a speeding motorcycle

In Zo voelt dat duiken de veelbekroonde Bette Westera en Sylvia Weve in de emoties en gevoelens van de dingen in ons leven

crafting electric verses that defy grammar but resound with an intuitive truth: if he had a hundred years

while also meeting famous names in an unfamiliar guise

" Bellamy writes

Anne Carson

and anyone can have it