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.
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