In Defense of Nothing

“[A] significant retrospective . . . [It] samples nearly twenty-five years of his poems but finds a new order and a new context for them.” ―Alex Dueben,  Paris Review Runner-up for the William Carlos Williams Award Since his celebrated first book of poetry, Peter Gizzi has been hailed as one of the most significant and distinctive voices writing today. Gathered from over five collections, and representing close to twenty-five years of work, the poems in this generous selection strike a dyna