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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463978703321

Autore

Gizzi Peter

Titolo

In defense of nothing : selected poems, 1987-2011 / / Peter Gizzi ; Quemadura, cover design

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Middletown, Connecticut : , : Wesleyan University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8195-7431-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

Wesleyan poetry

Altri autori (Persone)

Quemadura

Disciplina

811.5408

Soggetti

American poetry - 20th century

American poetry - 21st century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; IN DEFENSE OF NOTHING; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; FROM PERIPLUM, AND OTHER POEMS; SONG OF THE INTERIOR BEGIN; PERIPLUM; BLUE PETER; STILL LIFE WITH AUTOMOBILE; THIRTY SENTENCES FOR NO ONE; POEM FOR JOHN WIENERS; DESPITE YOUR NOTICES; PSALM; DEUS EX MACHINA; SONG OF THE DEN; PERIPLUM VII (A VALENTINE); HARD AS ASH; FROM ARTIFICIAL HEART; NEW PICNIC TIME; TOY; ANOTHER DAY ON THE PILGRIMAGE; SPECK; WILL CALL; LEDGER DOMAIN; LONELY TYLENOL; REED; CAPTION; PIERCED; FABLES OF CRITIQUE; A TEXTBOOK OF CHIVALRY; FROM SOME VALUES OF LANDSCAPE AND WEATHER

OBJECTS IN MIRROR ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEARTHE ETHICS OF DUST; A HISTORY OF THE LYRIC; ADD THIS TO THE HOUSE; SOME VALUES OF LANDSCAPE AND WEATHER; OVERTAKELESSNESS; HAWTHORNE; EDGAR POE; REVIVAL; TO BE WRITTEN IN NO OTHER COUNTRY; IN DEFENSE OF NOTHING; LESSONS IN DARKNESS; IT WAS RAINING IN DELFT; FIN AMOR; BEGINNING WITH A PHRASE FROM SIMONE WEIL; FROM THE OUTER NATIONALE; A PANIC THAT CAN STILL COME UPON ME; THE QUEST; STUNG; UNTITLED AMHERST SPECTER; A TELESCOPE PROTECTS ITS VIEW; THAT'S LIFE; NOCTURNE; VINCENT, HOMESICK FOR THE LAND OF PICTURES; WINTRY MIX

SATURDAY AND ITS FESTOONED POTENTIALTHE MOONLIGHT DEFENSE;



BOLSHEVESCENT; THE OUTER NATIONALE; FROM THRESHOLD SONGS; THE GROWING EDGE; LULLABY; HYPOSTASIS & NEW YEAR; EYE OF THE POEM; SNOW GLOBE; ANALEMMA; THIS TRIP AROUND THE SUN IS EXPENSIVE; BASEMENT SONG; PINOCCHIO'S GNOSIS; TINY BLAST; TRADITION & THE INDIVISIBLE TALENT; APOCRYPHA; A NOTE ON THE TEXT; OVERSONG; HISTORY IS MADE AT NIGHT; BARDO; MODERN ADVENTURES AT SEA; FRAGMENT (TO THE READER); ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PETER GIZZI

Sommario/riassunto

A new lyricism for the twenty-first century