In the air : essays on the poetry of Peter Gizzi

The first comprehensive exploration of the poetry of Peter Gizzi 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 traditionextending the poetics of Whitman, Dickinson, and Stevens, amongst otherswhile 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. Cover......Page 1 IN THE AIR......Page 2 Title......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 CONTENTS......Page 6 Acknowledgments......Page 10 List of Source Abbreviations......Page 12 INTRODUCTION | In the Air: The Poetry of Peter Gizzi......Page 14 PART I | TRADITION AND INTERTEXTUALITY......Page 26 1 | Gizzi’s Romantic Exportance......Page 28 2 | Gesture and Philosophical Reflection in the Poetry of Peter Gizzi......Page 40 3 | The Artifice of Personhood and the Poetics of Plenitude in Peter Gizzi’s Archeophonics......Page 59 4 | Peter Gizzi’s Poetics of Contingency......Page 69 5 | Gathering the Poem: On Peter Gizzi’s “A Telescope Protects Its View”......Page 82 6 | “Tradition & the Indivisible Talent”......Page 91 7 | “To Speak in This Place”: Peter Gizzi, W. S. Graham, and English Poetry......Page 103 PART II | LYRICS AND ETHICS......Page 120 8 | Peter Gizzi’s Hypothetical Lyricism......Page 122 9 | The Lyric Voice as Ethical Medium: Peter Gizzi and the Contemporary Polis......Page 144 10 | The Outernationale: Only Transition! or, the Poetics of Unfreedom......Page 165 11 | The Bewilderment of Peter Gizzi’s “Plural Noises”: Toward a Poetics of Citizenship......Page 176 12 | “This further sound, scratch of pen to parchment in a flight of democracy”: Reading Peter Gizzi’s “Some Values of Landscape and Weather”......Page 191 13 | Peter Gizzi’s Radical Irony......Page 204 14 | “turning words to return a world”: On Peter Gizzi’s “Pierced”......Page 218 PART III | AFFECT AND ALLUSION......Page 230 15 | Recognition, Affect, Resistance: The Poetry of Peter Gizzi......Page 232 16 | Peter Gizzi’s Emotion Machine......Page 245 17 | To Arrive in Zeno’s Thought: Reverie On, Thinking In, Peter Gizzi’s “A Panic That Can Still Come Upon Me”......Page 257 18 | Divine Allusion and Refraction: Beginning, Ecstasy, and the Dead in the Poetry of Peter Gizzi......Page 269 19 | Love at Both Ends of the Western World......Page 288 20 | “Trembling my standard returned”: Two Versions of “Hard as Ash”......Page 296 21 | From Seeing to Saying: On Peter Gizzi’s “It Was Raining in Delft”......Page 309 AFTERWORD | “Sonic Sense”......Page 314 About the Contributors......Page 322 Index......Page 326 "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.

"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"--Amazon.com