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Peter Gizzi
Peter Gizzi
The author of several collections, his poems have been described by the critic Marjorie Perloff as being "as memorable as they are moving and spare"...
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FURTHER READING
Poems About Love
Answer to a Child's Question
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Credo
by Matthew Rohrer
Epithalamium
by Matthew Rohrer
How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I Love You
by Sara Teasdale
It's all I have to bring today (26)
by Emily Dickinson
Lullaby
by W. H. Auden
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun (Sonnet 130)
by William Shakespeare
somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
by E. E. Cummings
Song to Celia
by Ben Jonson
Sonnets on Love XIII
by Jean de Sponde
True Love
by Robert Penn Warren
Two Loves
by Lord Alfred Douglas
When You are Old
by W. B. Yeats
Wild Nights – Wild Nights! (249)
by Emily Dickinson
Poems About Weather
A Crosstown Breeze
by Henry Taylor
A Line-storm Song
by Robert Frost
A Winter Without Snow
by J. D. McClatchy
An Octave Above Thunder
by Carol Muske-Dukes
Aubade: Some Peaches, After Storm
by Carl Phillips
Even the Rain
by Agha Shahid Ali
Flood
by Eliza Griswold
Flood
by Miyazawa Kenji
From "Snow-Bound," 11:1-40, 116-154
by John Greenleaf Whittier
Great Sleeps I Have Known
by Robin Becker
In April
by James Hearst
Now Winter Nights Enlarge
by Thomas Campion
Ode to the West Wind
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Problems with Hurricanes
by Victor Hernández Cruz
Rain
by Claribel Alegría
Sitting Outside
by W. D. Snodgrass
Sleet
by Alan Shapiro
Snow
by Naomi Shihab Nye
The Snow Storm
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Storm
by Theodore Roethke
Who Has Seen the Wind?
by Christina Rossetti
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It Was Raining In Delft  
by Peter Gizzi
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A cornerstone. Marble pilings. Curbstones and brick.
I saw rooftops. The sun after a rain shower.
Liz, there are children in clumsy jackets. Cobblestones
         and the sun now in a curbside pool.
I will call in an hour where you are sleeping. I’ve been walking
         for 7 hrs on yr name day.
Dead, I am calling you now.
There are colonnades. Yellow wrappers in the square.
Just what you’d suspect: a market with flowers and matrons,
         handbags.
Beauty walks this world. It ages everything.
I am far and I am an animal and I am just another I-am poem,
         a we-see poem, a they-love poem.
The green. All the different windows.
There is so much stone here. And grass. So beautiful each
         translucent electric blade.
And the noise. Cheers folding into traffic. These things.
         Things that have been already said many times:
leaf, zipper, sparrow, lintel, scarf, window shade.




from Some Values of Landscape and Weather © 2003 by Peter Gizzi. Published by Wesleyan University Press and used by permission.


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March 1, 2007
AWP Conference, Atlanta
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