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By Peter Gizzi

The voices in those poems practice on the inside thresholds encountered on a daily basis, the place we negotiate the unfathomable proximities of figuring out and never realizing, the gulf of seeing and feeling, the uncanny relation of grief to pleasure, and the without borderlines nature of selfhood and culture. either conceptual and haunted, those poems discover the asymmetry of the body’s chemistry and its results on expression and shape. The poems in Threshold Songs song us to the microtonal track of conversing and being spoken.

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Above me the blue of leaves in shapes of fierce animals. autos within the yards make grotesque sounds and the animals touching them odor undesirable. I enjoyed your darkish feathers enjoyed the ordinary tune again and again. The lengthy black strands of hair your saddest tunes might conjure. And my physique additionally a commotion of sound and shape. Of tides. sixty eight IV I too am many cries from fact extra guttural than piercing, extra muffled than far away. Gmail invitations me to “go noticeable. ” Is being invisible no longer sufficient? a type of vow like poetry burning the candle down. carry again the haloed reverie. track, retake the haughty evening sky. Its storied rays its creak and croak its raven’s wing tonality. sixty nine V convey again the outdated names Thoth and Anubis, Charon and Mercury. allow rust convenience the technoscape troubling my inside. A nesting doll attention small and much away establishing each one torn scene. yet what else is there while such a lot of are asleep during this age of sand, convinced, sand within the eyes and within the center. It’s demanding to get a footing, the mechanics are arduous. 70 VI used to be it no longer troubling, sleep? used to be it now not unmanageable, hope? whilst chuffed now not fit the get together. while unsatisfied fit too good. Un satisfied. What does it suggest not to fight not to holiday the spell of sinking, unhappy fantast, unsuitable delivering the brain. Take it differently. track the sorrowful tune and compliment lifestyles. compliment its contest of evening and air. seventy one VII A damaged patrician is a perilous melody within the excessive August evening air. an odd chromaticism awaking the boy. I start my encampment the following, complete throated by way of the celebrities we occasionally muster to a couple larger function, larger summit. possibly. Step again and consider the image. It performs for a cause, mister, everyone is nuts approximately it and curious to pay for a glimpse of that gaslit underworld. seventy two VIII i've got constantly been wide awake underneath glances, earlier doors, corridors. I by no means see via you yet via you the enjoyment of all that's there besides, making a song. the realm is emerging and crashing, a crescendo forever. Why now not commence with the total word? deliver all you were given, express me that stuff. seventy three IX All my lifestyles this jeweled standpoint pondering the evening sky as a boy may hold me up burning with event. That the biology that composes I is shared with I. seventy four X So the lace and downy gentle undoes me. simply because your face the following because it adjustments the gemmed scene i'm additionally altering love. For now let’s think about the realm is sweet and the evening is rocket or the colossus of those competition sparks falling now on us, throughout us. Even sunlight is historical if you happen to imagine on it should you feel its chilly rays, previous poetry, spreading calmly over so far as you'll find. seventy five Bardo I’ve spent my lifestyles in a lone mechanical whine, this combustion remote. How fathomless to be embedded in glacial ice, what piece of self hiding there. it's not that i am definite approximately that means yet comprehend the wave. not more Novalis out loud. No Juan de los angeles Cruz making a song “I don't die to die. ” No solstice, midhaven, midi, nor twilight. No “isn’t it amazing,” no none of that. To crow, to crown, to cry, to collapse.

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