Gizzi enlists the American vernacular in a magical and complex music
much like Dante’s Inferno
which were to strongly influence his later writing
A devotee of the surreal image
Keith Hutson explores art as artfulness
Slide by Mark Pajak<br> <b> PBS Recommendation Autumn 2022</b> Richard Osmond Gizzi enlists the American vernacular'Fresh, urgent, alive genius.' Patience Agbabi This assured and arresting first collection moves deftly and with purpose into private, hidden places a locked shed, the dark of a battery farm, a murky riverbed, a late night bar to show, unflinchingly and in cinematic detail, what we might otherwise choose not to see. Sight is both a gift and curse, of course: given or taken away in poems of windows and curtains, torches and blindfolds, and yet here
