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ALSO BY PETER GIZZI
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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
Copyright © 2014 by Peter Gizzi
All Rights Reserved
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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
SONG OF THE INTERIOR BEGIN / 3
STILL LIFE WITH AUTOMOBILE / 9
THIRTY SENTENCES FOR NO ONE / 10
PERIPLUM VII (A VALENTINE) / 23
ANOTHER DAY ON THE PILGRIMAGE / 42
SOME VALUES OF LANDSCAPE AND WEATHER
OBJECTS IN MIRROR ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR / 77
SOME VALUES OF LANDSCAPE AND WEATHER / 85
TO BE WRITTEN IN NO OTHER COUNTRY / 99