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Fierce Elegy

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Publisher's Synopsis

WINNER OF THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZE 2024

The powerful new collection from legendary American poet Peter Gizzi, reckoning with the transformative power of elegy through poems of lament and love


'I am awestruck, dumbfounded … a masterwork' Ocean Vuong
'Transcendent ... He identifies the thing we're all searching for' The New Yorker

In Fierce Elegy, Peter Gizzi contends with a decade of grief, and learns to transform a broken heart into new strength. These are poems of loss; of love; of the strangeness of being a self amid the fury of the world; and of our ongoing closeness with the dead. They are soaring yet grounded, vulnerable and brave. Ears attuned, grip assured. Mind free.

About the Publisher

Penguin Books

The first ten paperback Penguin books appeared in 1935 costing 6d each (the price of a packet of cigarettes). Since then the Penguin list has developed enormously, but still aims to bring the best writing to the widest possible audience. Penguin Paperbacks now range from Booker Prize-winning contemporary authors, to mass market bestsellers, with successful history, biography and general non-fiction as well.

Book information

ISBN: 9781802065244
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint: Penguin Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 811.54
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Sales rank: 462
Number of pages: 80
Weight: 78g
Height: 197mm
Width: 128mm
Spine width: 7mm