This first critical book of essays on the poetry of Peter Gizzi shows how his work extends the traditions of nineteenth- and twentieth-century modernism while also reclaiming the living presence of the "lyric" in its capacity to sing of the human predicament. Gizzi is author of seven critically acclaimed books of poetry, including most recently Threshold Songs and Archeophonics, a finalist for the National Book Award in 2016. Lauded contributors, including Ben Lerner, Michael Snediker, Marjorie Perloff, and Charles Altieri, explore Gizzi's poetry for its embodiment of an American tradition—extending the poetics of Whitman, Dickinson, and Stevens, amongst others—while also exhibiting a twenty-first-century sensibility, perpetuating a new grammar and syntax to capture our place in the world today. Each essayist, in turn, works through close-readings of some of the most important poems of our times, enriching our understanding of a poetry of the mind which never loses track of what it means to feel.
Hardcover is un-jacketed.

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Anthony Caleshu

James Dickey

United States, United States of America

Middletown, Connecticut, 2018

Middletown, 2017

1, 2017

"Cover"--"IN THE AIR"--"Title" -- "Copyright" -- "CONTENTS" -- "Acknowledgments" -- "List of Source Abbreviations" -- "INTRODUCTION | In the Air: The Poetry of Peter Gizzi" -- "PART I | TRADITION AND INTERTEXTUALITY" -- "1 | Gizziâ09s Romantic Exportance" -- "2 | Gesture and Philosophical Reflection in the Poetry of Peter Gizzi" -- "3 | The Artifice of Personhood and the Poetics of Plenitude in Peter Gizziâ09s Archeophonics" -- "4 | Peter Gizziâ09s Poetics of Contingency" -- "5 | Gathering the Poem: On Peter Gizziâ09s â0A Telescope Protects Its Viewâ0+" -- "6 | â0Tradition & the Indivisible Talentâ0+" -- "7 | â0−To Speak in This Placeâ0+: Peter Gizzi, W.S. Graham, and English Poetry" -- "PART II | LYRICS AND ETHICS" -- "8 | Peter Gizziâ09s Hypothetical Lyricism" -- "9 | The Lyric Voice as Ethical Medium: Peter Gizzi and the Contemporary Polis" -- "10 | The Outernationale: Only Transition! or, the Poetics of Unfreedom" -- "11 | The Bewilderment of Peter Gizziâ09s â0−Plural Noisesâ0+: Toward a Poetics of Citizenship" -- "12 | â0−This further sound, scratch of pen to parchment in a flight of democracyâ0+: Reading Peter Gizziâ09s â0−Some Values of Landscape and Weatherâ0+" -- "13 | Peter Gizziâ09s Radical Irony" -- "14 | â0−turning words to return a worldâ0+: On Peter Gizziâ09s â0−Piercedâ0+" -- "PART III | AFFECT AND ALLUSION" -- "15 | Recognition, Affect, Resistance: The Poetry of Peter Gizzi" -- "16 | Peter Gizziâ09s Emotion Machine" -- "17 | To Arrive in Zenoâ09s Thought: Reverie On, Thinking In, Peter Gizziâ09s â0−A Panic That Can Still Come Upon Meâ0+" -- "18 | Divine Allusion and Refraction: Beginning, Ecstasy, and the Dead in the Poetry of Peter Gizzi" -- "19 | Love at Both Ends of the Western World" -- "20 | â0−Trembling my standard returnedâ0+: Two Versions of â0−Hard as Ashâ0+

This first critical book of essays on the poetry of Peter Gizzi shows how his work extends the traditions of nineteenth- and twentieth-century modernism while also reclaiming the living presence of the "lyric" in its capacity to sing of the human predicament. Gizzi is author of seven critically acclaimed books of poetry, including most recently Threshold Songs and Archeophonics, a finalist for the National Book Award in 2016. Lauded contributors, including Ben Lerner, Michael Snediker, Marjorie Perloff, and Charles Altieri, explore Gizzi's poetry for its embodiment of an American tradition—extending the poetics of Whitman, Dickinson, and Stevens, amongst others—while also exhibiting a twenty-first-century sensibility, perpetuating a new grammar and syntax to capture our place in the world today. Each essayist, in turn, works through close-readings of some of the most important poems of our times, enriching our understanding of a poetry of the mind which never loses track of what it means to feel.
Hardcover is un-jacketed.

The first comprehensive exploration of the poetry of Peter Gizzi

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