A User’s Guide to the Invisible World: Selected Interviews

by Peter Gizzi, Zoe Tuck (Editor)

178 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2022

About the author

Educated at New York University, Brown University, and the State University of New York at Buffalo, poet Peter Gizzi is the author of several collections of poetry, including Threshold Songs (2011), The Outernationale (2007), and Artificial Heart (1998).

Gizzi uses both narrative and lyrical gestures to engage and question distance and light in his search for the unmapped. Reflecting on the question of whether his work is narrative or lyric, Gizzi stated in an interview with Poetry Daily, “I think I am a narrative poet—I’m just narrating my bewilderment as a citizen.”

(Source: Peter Gizzi @ The Poetry Foundation)

Reviews

[Restfulsimulation · Rating 5 out of 5]

really good and free! even if you aren’t a fan of gizzi or don’t know him, these collected interviews are chock full of great insights and bits about creating. almost instructional, even if poetry is not the thing you’re working towards.

[Maria Purtee · Rating 5 out of 5]

i knew from the first interview that this would be a five ☆, and it just keeps getting better. 90% my book is underlined. it’s a 4.5 for me tho ONLY because of repetition, which obviously, there will be because it’s interviews.