Introduction Young American Poets

Yang (Antwerp, Belgium), 182 (Summer 1998): 183-85.

In the 1980s, “language poetry” was such a dominant force in U.S. avant-garde circles that we are only now beginning to realize that something we might designate as “post-language” poetry has come into its own. Peter Gizzi and Elizabeth Willis, for example, studied at Buffalo and Brown with Charles Bernstein, Susan Howe, and Rosmarie Waldrop, yet Gizzi’s […]

To Wonder Without Becoming Dry. Artificial Heart by Peter Gizzi.

Artificial Heart by Peter Gizzi.Burning Deck.

Boston Book Review, 5-6 (August 1998): 34-35.

In 1959 Frank O’Hara wrote an ode called “Hôtel Transylvanie,” which begins:
Shall we win at love or shall we lose
can it be
that hurting and being hurt is a trick forcing the love
we want to appear, that the hurt is a card
and is it black? is it red? […]