<p><b>The powerful new collection from legendary American poet Peter Gizzi, reckoning with the transformative power of elegy through poems of lament and love<br></b><br><b>¿I am awestruck, dumbfounded ¿ a masterwork¿</b> Ocean Vuong<br><b>''Transcendent ... He identifies the thing we''re all searching for''</b><i>The New Yorker</i><br><br>In <i>Fierce Elegy</i>, Peter Gizzi contends with a decade of grief, and learns to transform a broken heart into new strength. These are poems of loss; of love; of the strangeness of being a self amid the fury of the world; and of our ongoing closeness with the dead. They are soaring yet grounded, vulnerable and brave. Ears attuned, grip assured. Mind free.</p>