Dana Gioia : poet and critic / edited by John Zheng and Jon Parrish Peede.
2024
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Title
Dana Gioia : poet and critic / edited by John Zheng and Jon Parrish Peede.
ISBN
9780881469561 (paperback)
0881469564
0881469564
Published
Macon, Georgia : Mercer University Press, [2024]
Language
English
Description
xx, 284 pages ; 23 cm
Exhibited
2024-2025 Poets House Showcase.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1450556881
Summary
"During the past forty years, Dana Gioia has had as transformative an impact on American literature as any living author. A major poet, creative visionary, and forthright critic, he has played a pivotal role in the field by arguing for more honest reviewing, questioning the isolated state of American poetry, and advocating for the return to form and narrative. This collection of twenty essays is the first multi-author critical effort to explore the extent of Gioia's influential presence on the literary world. Dana Gioia: Poet and Critic brings together more than thirty years of scholarship to illuminate the scope of his artistic achievement and cultural impact. The book includes the most significant critical responses to his award-winning poetry and prose. It also provides an unparalleled foundation for understanding his literary influences, preoccupations, and intentions. The essay collection is divided into three sections covering Gioia's early career (Daily Horoscope, The Gods of Winter, and Can Poetry Matter?), midcareer (Interrogations at Noon and Nosferatu), and later career (Pity the Beautiful, 99 Poems, and Meet Me at the Lighthouse). In addition to providing close readings of individual poems and essays, it examines the overarching themes of his work, such as his religious faith, love of California, and engagement with the Western intellectual tradition. Contributors include Ned Balbo, Matthew Brennan, Christopher Clausen, Roxana Elena Doncu, Jack Foley, Joshua Hren, Hilton Kramer, Shirley Geoklin Lim, April Lindner, Franz Link, Samuel Maio, David Mason, Janet McCann, Robert McPhillips, Leslie Monsour, William Oxley, Jon Parrish Peede, Anne Stevenson, Kevin Walzer, James Matthew Wilson, and John Zheng"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Dana Gioia : a chronology / April Lindner and John Zheng
Introduction : Dana Gioia : a voice for our time / Jon Parrish Peede
Dana Gioia and visionary realism / Robert McPhillips
Poems of exile and loss : daily horoscope / April Lindner
Dana Gioia : critic and poet of the new formalism / Franz Link
Dana Gioia and expansive poetry / Kevin Walzer
On the Gods of winter / Anne Stevenson
Culture and the subculture : on can poetry matter? / Christopher Clausen
Poetry & the silencing of art / Hilton Kramer
On interrogations at noon / Leslie Monsour
Dana Gioia : a contemporary metaphysics / Janet McCann
On Dana Gioia / William Oxley
The achievement of Dana Gioia / Jack Foley
Dana Gioia's dramatic monologues / Samuel Maio
Naming and taming the truth : Dana Gioia's transformative poetry / Roxana Elena Doncu
In Christ-haunted California : Dana Gioia's 99 Poems / James Matthew Wilson
"Faith's ardor in an air-conditioned tomb" : sights of the unseen in a secular age / Joshua Hren
The art of story-telling : Dana Gioia's "Ballad of Jesús Ortiz" / John Zheng
Beloved communities : on Meet me at the lighthouse / Ned Balbo
The turn in Dana Gioia's Meet me at the lighthouse / Shirley Geok-lin Lim
The poet as critic and public intellectual / Matthew Brennan
The state of letters : the inner exile of Dana Gioia / David Mason.
Introduction : Dana Gioia : a voice for our time / Jon Parrish Peede
Dana Gioia and visionary realism / Robert McPhillips
Poems of exile and loss : daily horoscope / April Lindner
Dana Gioia : critic and poet of the new formalism / Franz Link
Dana Gioia and expansive poetry / Kevin Walzer
On the Gods of winter / Anne Stevenson
Culture and the subculture : on can poetry matter? / Christopher Clausen
Poetry & the silencing of art / Hilton Kramer
On interrogations at noon / Leslie Monsour
Dana Gioia : a contemporary metaphysics / Janet McCann
On Dana Gioia / William Oxley
The achievement of Dana Gioia / Jack Foley
Dana Gioia's dramatic monologues / Samuel Maio
Naming and taming the truth : Dana Gioia's transformative poetry / Roxana Elena Doncu
In Christ-haunted California : Dana Gioia's 99 Poems / James Matthew Wilson
"Faith's ardor in an air-conditioned tomb" : sights of the unseen in a secular age / Joshua Hren
The art of story-telling : Dana Gioia's "Ballad of Jesús Ortiz" / John Zheng
Beloved communities : on Meet me at the lighthouse / Ned Balbo
The turn in Dana Gioia's Meet me at the lighthouse / Shirley Geok-lin Lim
The poet as critic and public intellectual / Matthew Brennan
The state of letters : the inner exile of Dana Gioia / David Mason.
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