Stevens always sounds like Stevens. Similarly, Ashbery by this point in his own development and the general climate of the poetry scene -- which his own work has played an undeniably central role in developing -- has reached the point of always sounding like Ashbery (although, hasnt he always?). Gizzi, likewise, proves remarkably identifiable as Gizzi. A singularly recognizable tone is pervasive throughout his poems, whether asserting I am not a poet (Poem for John Wieners) or the heart of poetry is fatigue (Pierced), while blandly yet forthrightly stating Winters the thing. (Edgar Poe), his poetic discourses remain markedly his own. His is a cerebral embrace of the text as literal sounding board for furthering his understanding of identity: but the mind of a page is the form of a body / the one we touch, the one that makes laws (Pierced).
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