Peter Gizzi (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Peter Gizzi (born in 1959 Pittsfield, Massachusetts) is an award-winning American poet and renowned editor of the American poet Jack Spicer. He attended Brown University, New York University and the State University of New York at Buffalo.Born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, he delayed going to college and took a job in a factory winding resin tubes and in a residential treatment center working with emotionally disturbed adolescents. Working overnight at the treatment center, Gizzi read George Oppen's Collected Poems, along with H.D., Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Federico Garc a Lorca, Baudelaire, Rimbaud "and almost anything published by Burning Deck."