Poetry. "CONTINENTAL HARMONY takes us out into the street. Where we may hear anything. And all at once. It is the moment when Ives' two marching bands meet. Language both down to earth and way off the ground, a 'natural trance' pitching us across centuries and continents in a 'talking dictionary howl.' It will take your breath away. It will make you laugh. It will make you think about 'the way language uses us.'"—Rosmarie Waldrop

Author City: PROVIDENCE, RI USA

Michael Gizzi was born in Schenectady, New York. He received his BA and MFA from Brown University, then spent the next decade as a licensed arborist in Southern New England. In the early 1980s he migrated to the Berkshire Hills in western Massachusetts, where he began teaching. For the next twenty years he coordinated many poetry readings and edited lingo magazine and Hard Press (which published, among others, Bernadette Mayer, Merrill Gilfillan, Jim Brodey, and the artist Trevor Winkfield). Back in Rhode Island, Gizzi taught at Brown University where he also coordinated the Downcity Poetry Series and continued publishing, with Craig Watson in Jamestown, Rhode Island, the imprint Qua Books. He taught at Roger Williams University in Bristol and lived in Providence. Michael Gizzi passed away in 2010.

Reviews and Other Links
Michael Gizzi @ PennSound