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Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| T.S. Eliot Prize | 2024 | Winner |
About This Book
Peter Gizzi's T.S. Eliot Prize-winning collection is a sustained meditation on elegy as a form capable of holding crisis—ecological, political, and personal. The poems enact grief as a mode of attention, moving between lyric fragments and sustained argument with musical urgency.
About the Author
Peter Gizzi is an American poet and Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He won the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2024 for Fierce Elegy (Penguin), a collection meditating on elegy, the natural world, and the crisis of language. Read more →
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