In Defense of Nothing : : Selected Poems, 1987-2011.

• Superior document: Wesleyan Poetry Series
• Author: Gizzi, Peter.
• Place / Publishing House: Middletown, CT. 06459 : : Wesleyan University Press,, 2014.; Ã2014.
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Wesleyan Poetry Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (241 pages)

A new lyricism for the twenty-first century.

Table of Contents

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 APPEAR -- THE 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 POTENTIAL -- THE MOONLIGHT DEFENSE -- BOLSHEVESCENT -- THE OUTER NATIONALE -- FROM THRESHOLD SONGS -- THE GROWING EDGE -- LULLABY -- HYPOSTASIS &amp -- NEW YEAR -- EYE OF THE POEM -- SNOW GLOBE -- ANALEMMA -- THIS TRIP AROUND THE SUN IS EXPENSIVE -- BASEMENT SONG -- PINOCCHIO'S GNOSIS -- TINY BLAST -- TRADITION &amp -- 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.