In the Air (eBook)

amp;lt;P>ANTHONY CALESHU is author of three collections of poetry and two books of criticism. He is professor of poetry at Plymouth University in England, and founder and editor of the small press Periplum.</P>

<P>Acknowledgments<BR>Introduction: In the Air: The Poetry of Peter Gizzi by Anthony Caleshu<BR>TRADITION AND INTERTEXTUALITY<BR>"Snow Globe": Gizzi's Romantic Exportance—Michael Snediker<BR>Gesture and Philosophical Reflection in the Poetry of Peter Gizzi—Charles Altieri<BR>The Artifice of Personhood and the Poetics of Plenitude in Peter Gizzi's Archeophonics—Kacper Bartczak<BR>Peter Gizzi's Poetics of Contingency—Marjorie Perloff<BR>Gathering the Poem: On Peter Gizzi's "A Telescope Protects Its View"—Hannah Brooks-Motl<BR>"Tradition &amp; the Indivisible Talent"—Sara Crangle<BR>"To Speak in This Place": Peter Gizzi, W. S. Graham, and English Poetry—Jeremy Noel-Tod<BR>LYRICS AND ETHICS<BR>Peter Gizzi's Hypothetical Lyricism—Olivier Brossard<BR>The Lyric Voice as Ethical Medium: Peter Gizzi and the Contemporary Polis—David Herd<BR>The Outernationale: Only Transition! or, the Poetics of Unfreedom—Ruth Jennison<BR>The Bewilderment of Peter Gizzi's "Plural Noises": Toward a Poetics of Citizenship—Lytton Smith<BR>"This further sound, scratch of pen to parchment in a flight of democracy": Reading Peter Gizzi's "Some Values of Landscape and Weather"—Nerys Williams<BR>Peter Gizzi's Radical Irony—Peter Middleton<BR>"turning words to return a world": On Peter Gizzi's "Pierced"—Philip Coleman<BR>AFFECT AND ALLUSION<BR>Recognition, Affect, Resistance: The Poetry of Peter Gizzi—Lee Upton<BR>Peter Gizzi's Emotion Machine—Daniel Katz<BR>To Arrive in Zeno's Thought: Reverie On, Thinking In, Peter Gizzi's "A Panic That Can Still Come Upon Me"—Dan Beachy-Quick<BR>Divine Allusion and Refraction: Beginning, Ecstasy, and the Dead in the Poetry of Peter Gizzi—Anthony Caleshu<BR>Love at Both Ends of the Western World—Aaron Kunin<BR>"Trembling my standard returned": Two Versions of "Hard As Ash"—Graham Foust<BR>From Seeing to Saying: On Peter Gizzi's "It Was Raining in Delft"—Ben Lerner<BR>Afterword: "Sonic Sense"—Cole Swensen<BR>About the Contributors<BR>Index</P>