Peter Gizzi
Peter Gizzi (born August 7, 1959 in Alma , Michigan , USA ) is an American author , university professor and publisher .
Life
Gizzi spent most of his childhood and youth in Pittsfield, Massachusetts . After graduating from high school , he first went to a cable factory as a worker and then to a home for behavioral youth. During the night watch he dealt with literature and read, among other things, everything that the "Burning Deck Press" had published . He began his studies at Brown University in Providence , Rhode Island . In the 1980s he lived in New York City , where he studied at New York University . He worked as a waiter, read a lot and, inspired by a reprint from Blast , published his own magazine o * blék: a journal of language arts , which he founded in 1987 together with Conell McGrath .
In 1991 Gizzi began editing Jack Spicer's lectures . In the same year he was able to work at the State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNY) in Buffalo , New York , with the help of Robert Creeley , Charles Bernstein and Susan Howe . In 1993, after eight years and twelve issues, he left o * blék , which ceased publication shortly afterwards.
Gizzi taught at his alma mater and at the University of California, Santa Cruz . From 2001 onwards, he was Professor of the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst . He was the poetry editor of The Nation magazine .
Today Gizzi is editor and on the board of directors of the New York literary magazine Conjunctions . He is the brother of the late poet Michael Gizzi .
honors and awards
- 1994: Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets .
- 1999: American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation .
- Artist in Residence at MacDowell Colony .
- Guggenheim grant
- 2011: Poet-in-Residence in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge , Cambridge, England.
Publications
- Chapbook : Hours of the Book . Zasterle, Gran Canaria 1994, ISBN 84-87647-18-0 .
- as editor: Exact Change Yearbook . 1995.
- as editor: The House That Jack Built – The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer . Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Massachusetts, USA 1998.
- Artificial Heart . Burning Deck Press, 1998.
- Some Values of Landscapes and Weather . Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Massachusetts, USA 2003.
- Threshold songs . Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Massachusetts, USA 2011.
- In Defense of Nothing: Selected Poems 1987–2011 , Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Massachusetts 2014.
- as editor: My Vocabulary Did This To Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer . Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Massachusetts, USA 1998.
In German language
- being dead is good in america . Selected poems, bilingual. Translator: Sylvia Geist , Daniela Seel , Christian Lux, Andreas Bülhoff, Simone Kornappel and Jan Skudlarek . luxbooks, Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 978-3-939557-43-2 .
Web links
- Biography (en.)
- German publisher
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gizzi, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American author, professor, and publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 7th August 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Alma , Michigan , USA |