A Panic That Can Still Come Upon Me
Peter Gizzi
May 2006
If we find we are still in motion
and have arrived in Zeno’s thought, like
if sunshine hits marble and the sea lights up
we might know we were loved, are loved
if flames and harvest, the enchanted plain
if sunshine hits marble and the sea lights up
Peter Gizzi
This poem was originally published in the inaugural issue of A Public Space. It can also be found in Gizzi’s book The Outernationale (Wesleyan University Presse 2008).
About the Author
Peter Gizzi is a poet and editor. His books include In Defense of Nothing: Selected Poems, Threshold Songs, The Outernationale, Some Values of Landscape and Weather (each from Wesleyan), Artificial Heart (Burning Deck), Periplum (Salt), and the chapbook, A Panic That Can Still Come Upon Me (UDP). His book Archeophonics (Wesleyan) was a finalist for the National Book Award. He has been the poetry editor for The Nation and a founding co-editor of o•blék: a journal of language arts. He edited The Exact Change Yearbook 1995, The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer (Wesleyan), and co-edited My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer (Wesleyan).
Publication Details
ISBN: 978-1-933254-19-7
Chapbook
Hand-bound. 16 pp, 7.75 x 7.5 in
Publication Date: May 03 2006