Conversations with Dana Gioia

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Title
"Conversations with Dana Gioia"
Statement of Responsibility
edited by John Zheng
Publisher
  • University Press of Mississippi
Publication Year
  • 2021
Book size
24 cm
Series Name / No
  • : hardback

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Notes

Bibliography: p. 239-242

Includes bibliographical references and index

Summary: "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..."

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