Poetry. "There is a darkness at the heart of Peter Gizzi's new collection of poems, ARTIFICIAL HEART, that is far from artificial...The title accurately locates the site of writing as the "heart of artifice." In realizing emptiness, the poems start a flow of current , a darker circulation within the darkness-and in doing so, initiate a movement toward regeneration, if not redemption" -Andrew Joron, HAMBONE.