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These feelings of futurelessness : Peter Gizzi’s Now It’s Dark
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Katz, Daniel (2022) These feelings of futurelessness : Peter Gizzi’s Now It’s Dark. Word and Text - A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics, 12 . pp. 34-46. doi:10.51865/JLSL.2022.03 ISSN 2247-9163.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.51865/JLSL.2022.03
Abstract
This essay examines Peter Gizzi’s book Now It’s Dark under various optics. To begin, the focus is on the book’s intricate construction as an extended, dialogic work, rather than simply a collection of poems. Attention is paid to the complex structural links and divergences between the book’s various sections, and how Gizzi deploys them to displace and complicate traditional elements of the lyric, not least lyric temporality. The analysis of temporality which follows also allows Gizzi’s work to be placed in the context of important modernist and proto-modernist interlocutors, such as Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens. Special attention is devoted to how Gizzi’s work can be seen to intervene in and deepen the unlikely dialogue between the latter two, by way of an investigation of Natalia Cecire’s concept of ‘contact’ and Gizzi’s own trope of auto-ethnography. To conclude, the essay examines how Gizzi’s poetic working through of mourning, elegy and the problem of pastness links to our present historical moment more generally.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PS American literature | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Gizzi, Peter, American poetry -- 21st century, Dialogism (Literary analysis), Lyric poetry, Bereavement -- Psychological aspects, Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955, Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892, Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963 | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Word and Text - A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics | ||||
Publisher: | Universitatea Petrol-Gaze din Ploiesti | ||||
ISSN: | 2247-9163 | ||||
Official Date: | 30 December 2022 | ||||
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Volume: | 12 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 34-46 | ||||
DOI: | 10.51865/JLSL.2022.03 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 28 March 2023 | ||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 29 March 2023 |
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