Fierce ElegyPeter Gizzi's powerful new collection reckons with the transformative power of elegy, through poems of lament and love In March 2021, Peter Gizzi was diagnosed with a very rare blood disease. This book is what followed composed slowly and painstakingly, though for Gizzi with unprecedented speed; written with an eye as much to his own impending mortality as to a decade of losses of friends and family, yet suffused, beautifully, with music and light.