Dana Gioia is the author of three collections of poetry, including the 2002 American Book Award winner Interrogations at Noon. Also an influential critic, Gioia's 1991 collection of essays, Can Poetry Matter?, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His new collection, Pity the Beautiful, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in 2012. A translator, librettist, and former chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, Gioia spoke with WLT's managing editor about the revival of form and narrative in poetry, his "idiosyncratic poetics," and his collaborations with artists in different disciplines inside the September 2011 issue.
Philadelphia. Paul Dry Books. 2021. 184 pages.
AS THE TITLE SUGGESTS, this book of memoirs recounts the author’s interactions with Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Fitzgerald, and John Cheeve...
Belmont, North Carolina. Wiseblood Books. 2019. 213 pages.
Dana Gioia is unique in contemporary poetry, as his poetry and critical commentary confirm. Rather than rise through the ranks of “academic b...
A poem by Dana Gioia / Spanish translation by José Emilio Pacheco
The world does not need words. It articulates itselfin sunlight, leaves, and shadows. The stones on the pathare no less real for lying...