My Terza Rima

by Michael C. Gizzi

Poetry. Michael Gizzi received his BA and MFA from Brown University where he studied with Keith Waldrop. In 1982 he moved to the Berkshires in western Massachusetts. He has collaborated with Clark Collidge, Celia Coolidge, John Yau, and Bernadette Mayer who says of his work, Troubadour-trickster Gizzi is a poetry trouble maker and he's fortunate to have two golden z's in his name. Interlocking Gizzi is relentlessly learned about the American idiom and it's delphic and unobscurely elfin to perceive everything the way we think he does--Bernadette Mayer.

Genres: Poetry

95 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2001

Reviews

[Eddie Watkins · Rating 4 out of 5]

Reveals countless new veins for Coolidge junkies to probe. Onward!

[Matt Walker · Rating 5 out of 5]

NERVY OPTIC HOBBYIST

Heavens gets into Betsy
with a twenty inch retina
now that's a yen channel a few
gigatons through a different medium
and Cleopatra's caravan might
reminisce rabbits on the running
board peeling apples like Hapsburg lips
all lisping in the wrong direction
remember learning is the root beer
of living we live in telescopes
like exercise bikes trading
rubbers for a desert mirage here's
a poor pony clipping treetops
where Grapenuts had his coronary
cup of tea to go scatterbrained
to explain why in the fracas
that follows the trotting out of
fireflies he's all over Rand McNally
now abed with St. Caboodle
like a king of cufflinks in
Timbuktu and bloomers from any
where stems in iambic sphere goes
out for a beer and wakes up
in Singapore with a beard

[Rodney · Rating 5 out of 5]

Anyone who wears their heart in their head and considers the tongue a reed instrument will find in this book, my favorite from my favorite Gizzi, a rope dropped from the top of the well.