Fierce Elegy

WINNER OF THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZE 2024

The powerful new collection from legendary American poet Peter Gizzi, reckoning with the transformative power of elegy through poems of lament and love

‘I am awestruck, dumbfounded … a masterwork’ Ocean Vuong
''Transcendent ... He identifies the thing we''re all searching for'' The New Yorker

In Fierce Elegy, Peter Gizzi contends with a decade of grief, and learns ...