Peter Gizzi

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).