Infinite Zero
Alum, 2012 - Creative Writing at The New School
Writ Large Projects, 2025
“Peter Burzyński’s poems burn like the snow. Metaphor bypassing thought and laid directly on the heart. Enjambments drawing a fragile melody with the measure of a marble rolling down a staircase into meaning. It’s beautiful to hold these pieces of filigree life for however long it takes them to play. His poems are balloons, or planets, each a precise world – poignantly funny, tossed up in experiment. Fables for our cracked world. ‘Do you feel me?’ Reading Burzyński’s poems feels like discovering poetry again, smoking a cigarette at the airport in the first snow, and you’re young. At the bottom of this swirling book: hope-just like at the bottom of love.”
– Ana Bozičevic, author of New Life (Wave Books, 2023)
Infinite Zero, the debut full-length poetry collection from Peter Burzyński, is a book of poetry that celebrates and indulges its own tragedies. It is a neo-baroque grotesque expression of vulnerability brimming with playful language that simultaneously burns and soothes. At the center of these poems there is a nobody longing for any and everything. There is morose joy and cheerful glumness. There is poetry that tries to break its own lines and still win. It is the beauty of failure.