Peter Gizzi

In Defense of Nothing


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      ALSO BY PETER GIZZI

      * * *

      PERIPLUM

      ARTIFICIAL HEART

      SOME VALUES OF LANDSCAPE AND WEATHER

      THE OUTER NATIONALE

      THRESHOLD SONGS

       IN DEFENSE OF NOTHING

      WESLEYAN POETRY

       IN DEFENSE OF NOTHING

       SELECTED POEMS, 1987 – 2011

       PETER GIZZI

      Wesleyan University Press

      Middletown, Connecticut 06459

       www.wesleyan.edu/wespress

      Copyright © 2014 by Peter Gizzi

      All Rights Reserved

      Designed by Quemadura

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      Wesleyan University Press is a member of the Green Press Initiative. The paper used in this book meets their minimum requirement for recycled paper.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Gizzi, Peter.

      [Poems. Selections]

      In defense of nothing : selected poems, 1987–2011 / [Peter Gizzi].

      pages cm. — (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

      ISBN 978-0-8195-7430-5 (cloth : alk. paper)

      I. Title.

      PS3557.I94A6 2014

      811′.54—dc23

      2013041211

      5 4 3 2 1

      Cover design by Quemadura.

      FOR ELIZABETH WILLIS

       FROM

       PERIPLUM, AND OTHER POEMS

       SONG OF THE INTERIOR BEGIN / 3

       PERIPLUM / 4

       BLUE PETER / 6

       STILL LIFE WITH AUTOMOBILE / 9

       THIRTY SENTENCES FOR NO ONE / 10

       POEM FOR JOHN WIENERS / 12

       DESPITE YOUR NOTICES / 14

       PSALM / 16

       DEUS EX MACHINA / 17

       SONG OF THE DEN / 21

       PERIPLUM VII (A VALENTINE) / 23

       HARD AS ASH / 24

       FROM

       ARTIFICIAL HEART

       NEW PICNIC TIME / 37

       TOY / 40

       ANOTHER DAY ON THE PILGRIMAGE / 42

       SPECK / 47

       WILL CALL / 48

       LEDGER DOMAIN / 49

       LONELY TYLENOL / 55

       REED / 56

       CAPTION / 58

       PIERCED / 60

       FABLES OF CRITIQUE / 70

       A TEXTBOOK OF CHIVALRY / 72

       FROM

       SOME VALUES OF LANDSCAPE AND WEATHER

       OBJECTS IN MIRROR ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR / 77

       THE ETHICS OF DUST / 80

       A HISTORY OF THE LYRIC / 82

       ADD THIS TO THE HOUSE / 84

       SOME VALUES OF LANDSCAPE AND WEATHER / 85

       OVERTAKELESSNESS / 90

       HAWTHORNE / 91

       EDGAR POE / 92

       REVIVAL / 93

       TO BE WRITTEN IN NO OTHER COUNTRY / 99

       IN DEFENSE OF NOTHING / 100

       LESSONS IN DARKNESS / 101

       IT WAS RAINING IN DELFT / 104