Peter Gizzi

In Defense of Nothing


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FIN AMOR / 105

       BEGINNING WITH A PHRASE FROM SIMONE WEIL / 117

       FROM

       THE OUTER NATIONALE

       A PANIC THAT CAN STILL COME UPON ME / 121

       THE QUEST / 130

       STUNG / 131

       UNTITLED AMHERST SPECTER / 135

       A TELESCOPE PROTECTS ITS VIEW / 136

       THAT’S LIFE / 138

       NOCTURNE / 141

       VINCENT, HOMESICK FOR THE LAND OF PICTURES / 143

       WINTRY MIX / 150

       SATURDAY AND ITS FESTOONED POTENTIAL / 152

       THE MOONLIGHT DEFENSE / 154

       BOLSHEVESCENT / 155

       THE OUTERNATIONALE / 156

       FROM

       THRESHOLD SONGS

       THE GROWING EDGE / 169

       LULLABY / 173

       HYPOSTASIS & NEW YEAR / 175

       EYE OF THE POEM / 178

       SNOW GLOBE / 180

       ANALEMMA / 181

       THIS TRIP AROUND THE SUN IS EXPENSIVE / 184

       BASEMENT SONG / 186

       PINOCCHIO’S GNOSIS / 188

       TINY BLAST / 194

       TRADITION & THE INDIVISIBLE TALENT / 195

       APOCRYPHA / 199

       A NOTE ON THE TEXT / 202

       OVERSONG / 204

       HISTORY IS MADE AT NIGHT / 206

       BARDO / 214

       MODERN ADVENTURES AT SEA / 216

       FRAGMENT (TO THE READER) / 221

      The world contains consciousness as well as atoms—and the one must be written down as just as essential as the other …

       WILLIAM JAMES

      FROM

       PERIPLUM, AND OTHER POEMS

      SONG OF THE INTERIOR BEGIN

      Some sky of hydraulic

      spring Some season ever

      So the tree for even

      a twig O branch O earth

      there is too (psalm)

      Neither a pool nor

      a crown And day spills

      to where is O water

      Begin! Begin! So sing

      of lever Are eyes

      shy? O iris O onyx

      Into blouse of

      Air go there!

      PERIPLUM

      Put your map right with the world

      The person who knows where

      has made an accurate study

      of here

      As to know

      implies a different reading

      Somewhere

      faith enters

      and must be pinned and sighted

      A church tower is good for reference

      but losing ground

      Still

      satellites orbiting the earth

      track a true arc

      but perhaps too grand

      for everyday distances

      And never mind about the bewilderment

      “I’m at sea”

      BLUE PETER

      AFTER JASPER JOHNS

      To describe a logic of sight

      pull the surface onto target and

      arrive at zero aperture. Then

      fluctuate to a face, reproduced

      in serial format, superimposed

      upon marginal pedestrians,

      traversing a polarity of earth.

      The axis here is askew, perhaps

      unsettling, the way physical

      equilibrium