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Conversations with Dana Gioia

Conversations with Dana Gioia

Zheng, John

Hardcover

Series: Literary Conversations

Literary FiguresPoetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 1496832035
ISBN13: 9781496832030
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: Dec 11 2020
Pages: 282
Weight: 1.29
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Conversations with Dana Gioia is the first collection of interviews with the internationally known poet and public intellectual, covering every stage of his busy, polymathic career. Dana Gioia (b. 1950) has made many contributions to contemporary American literature and culture, including but not limited to crafting a personal poetic style suited to the age; leading the revival of rhyme, meter, and narrative through New Formalism; walloping the intellectual ghetto of American poetry through his epochal article Can Poetry Matter?; helping American poetry move forward by organizing influential conferences; providing public service and initiating nationwide arts projects such as Poetry Out Loud through his leadership of the National Endowment for the Arts; and editing twenty best-selling literary anthologies widely used in American classrooms.

Taken together, the twenty-two collected interviews increase our understanding of Gioia's poetry and poetics, offer aesthetic pleasure in themselves, and provide a personal encounter with a writer who has made poetry matter. The book presents the actual voice of Dana Gioia, who speaks of his personal and creative life and articulates his unique vision of American culture and poetry.

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