On all the days I shut my door to light, all the nights I turned my mind from sleep while snow fell, closing the space between the trees till dawn ran its iron needle through the east, in order to read the scribblings of your compeers, illiterate to what Martian sense they made […]
V. Penelope Pelizzon, author of Nostos (Ohio University Press, 2000), discusses the formal strategy of her poem Seven Penitential Psalms.
V. Penelope Pelizzon, author of Nostos (Ohio University Press, 2000), recommends another poet for Fishouse visitors to explore.
V. Penelope Pelizzon’s Nostos (Ohio University Press, 2000), won the Hollis Summers Prize and the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award. She is also co-author of Tabloid, Inc: Crimes, Newspapers, Narratives (Ohio State University Press, 2010), a study of the relations among sensation journalism, photography, and film between 1927-1958. Her poems and […]