Sky Burial: New and Selected Poems by Peter Gizzi Tony Frazer Mario Martín Gijón’s (Sur)rendering is

Mario Martín Gijón’s (Sur)rendering is a sequence of short passionate lyrics describing a love lost and found

‘The poetry of Thom Gunn was much admired in his lifetime

using a language that is precise

Christodoulos Makris

generated a storm of critical and public controversy

Sky Burial: New and Selected Poems by Peter Gizzi Tony Frazer Mario Martín Gijón’s (Sur)rendering isGathered from over thirty years of work, the poems in this generous selection strike a dynamic balance of honesty, emotion, intellectual depth and otherworldly resonance in Gizzi's work, poetry itself becomes a primary ground of human experience. Haunted, vibrant and saturated with luminous detail, Gizzi enlists the American vernacular in a magical and complex music. Sky Burial is an immensely valuable introduction to his work.