May 29 & 30 Peter Gizzi at Université Paris Est Marne-La-Vallée

On Tuesday 29 and Wednesday 30 May, we will be hosting a 2 day symposium on Peter Gizzi’s work at Université Paris Est Marne-La-Vallée (3^rd floor of the Copernic building, room 13). How to get there? see here.

We will be meeting in the morning of May 29^th at 10 am to prepare our sessions with Peter Gizzi. Peter Gizzi will be joining us at 2pm on the 29^th. He will also be with us on the 30^th.

So far, we’ve tried to focus on the writer’s own (creative and critical) work on the first day of the P&C symposia and on broader issues of poetics and practice-based criticism with the writer on the second day. But there’s no specific preconceived program for the 2 days of the symposium: as the previous sessions of the program have shown, it seems important to let the conversation take its own course.

PETER GIZZI’s books include Threshold Songs (2011), The Outernationale (2007), Some Values of Landscape and Weather (2003), Artificial Heart (1998), and Periplum (1992). He has also published several limited-edition chapbooks, folios, and artist books and his work has been translated into numerous languages. Over the years, his work has been translated into French by Emmanuel Hocquard, Juliette Valéry, Pascal Poyet, Sébastien Smirou, Pierre Alferi, Eric Giraud, Éric Pesty, Olivier Brossard, and Stéphane Bouquet. 
His honors include the Lavan Younger Poet Award from the Academy of American Poets (awarded by John Ashbery in 1994) and fellowships in poetry from The Howard Foundation (1998), The Foundation for Contemporary Arts (1999), and The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2005). He has held residencies at The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, The Foundation of French Literature at Royaumont, Un Bureau Sur L'Atlantique, the Centre International de Poesie Marseille (cipM), and Tamaas. 
His editing projects have included o-blek: a journal of language arts (1987-1993), The Exact Change Yearbook (1995), The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer (1998), and My Vocabulary Did This To Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer (2008). 
From 2007 to 2011 he was the Poetry Editor for The Nation. In 2011 he was the Judith E. Wilson Visiting Fellow in Poetry at Cambridge University. He works at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

> You will find below a bibliography including links to interviews and prose pieces by Peter Gizzi.

Threshold Songs (Wesleyan, 2011)

The Outernationale (Wesleyan, 2007)

Some Values of Landscape and Weather (Wesleyan, 2003)

Artificial Heart (Burning Deck, 1998)
Periplum (Avec, 1992). 

GIZZI ON-LINE RESOURCES

Interviews:

POETRY FOUNDATION INTERVIEW WITH BEN LERNER (2012)

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/article/243686

BOMB INTERVIEW WITH LEVI RUBECK (2011)

http://bombsite.com/issues/1000/articles/6301

JUBILAT INTERVIEW WITH ROB CASPER (2007)

http://poems.com/special_features/prose/essay_gizzi.php

PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY INTERVIEW WITH CRAIG MORGAN TEICHER (2007)

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/new-titles/adult-announcements/article/10082-friendly-ghosts-.html

RAIN TAXI INTERVIEW WITH AARON KUNIN (2003)

http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/gizzi/gizzi_kunin_interview.html

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Radio Interviews:

BOOKWORM INTERVIEW WITH MICHAEL SILVERBLATT (2011)

http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bw/bw111229peter_gizzi_threshol

CLOSE LISTENING INTERVIEW WITH CHARLES BERNSTEIN (2008)

http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Gizzi-P/Close-Listening/Gizzi-Peter_Close-Listening_conversation_3-17-08.mp3

CROSS-CULTURAL POETICS INTERVIEW WITH LEONARD SCHWARTZ (2007)

http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/groups/XCP/XCP_148_Gizzi_10-14-07.mp3

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Sound Files:

GIZZI PENNSOUND PAGE, READINGS, INTERVIEWS ETC.

http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Gizzi.php

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Selected Prose on-line:

ON ROBERT CREELEY (2005)

http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/gizzi/gizzi_on_creeley.html

ON BARBARA GUEST (2006)

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20202

INTRO TO SPICER’S 3^RD VANCOUVER LECTURE (1998)

http://jacketmagazine.com/07/spicer-lect3intro.html

FROM THE AFTERWORD TO THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT (1998)

http://jacketmagazine.com/07/spicer-lect3after.html

JACK SPICER, BRUCE CONNER & THE ART OF ASSEMBLAGE (2002)

http://www.sienese-shredder.com/3/peter_gizzi-jack_spicer_bruce_conner_and_the_art_of_the_assemblage.html

REVIEW OF JAMES SCHUYLER’S COLLECTED POEMS (1993)

http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/schuyler/schuyler_gizzi_collected_review.html

ON SCHUYLER’S FEBRUARY (2002)

http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/schuyler/schuyler_gizzi_on_february.html

LETTER TO STEVE FARMER PDF (1997)

http://slought.org/files/downloads/domains/phillytalks/pdf/pt10.pdf

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For a list of reviews of Peter Gizzi’s books, click here.

From My Vocabulary Did This to Me, edited by Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian, Wesleyan, 2008

"Introduction" from My Vocabulary Did This to Me, edited by Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian, Wesleyan, 2008 (source google books).

 

Preface and Afterword from The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer

Read from The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer, edited and with an afterword by Peter Gizzi, Wesleyan, 1999. Below the table of contents (source google books) with links to the different parts of the book available online.

Peter Gizzi's The Outernationale

Read some excerpts from Peter Gizzi's The Outernationale (Wesleyan, 2007) below (source: google books).

Peter Gizzi's Some Values of Landscape and Weather

Read some excerpts from Peter Gizzi's Some Values of Landscape and Weather (Wesleyan, 2003) below (source: google books).

American Poets of the 21st Century: Peter Gizzi

From American Poets of the 21st Century: The New Poetics, edited by Claudia Rankine & Lisa Sewell, Wesleyan University Press, 2007.

The section of the book on Peter Gizzi's work includes poems, an essay by Peter Gizzi and "Peter Gizzi's City," an essay by Cole Swensen.

You can read most of the section of the book below or on google books here.