Dana Gioia
Who is Dana Gioia
Michael Dana Gioia (; born December 24, 1950) is an American poet, literary critic, literary translator, and essayist.
Since the early 1980s, Gioia has been considered part of the literary movements within American poetry known as New Formalism, which advocates the continued writing of poetry in rhyme and meter, and New Narrative, which advocates the telling of non-autobiographical stories. Gioia has also argued in favor of a return to the past tradition of poetry translators replicating the rhythm and verse structure of the original poem.
Gioia helped renew the popularity of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and the rediscovery of John Allan Wyeth. He also co-founded the annual West Chester University Poetry Conference, which has run annually since 1995.
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Dana Gioia Poems
- Planting A Sequoia
All afternoon my brothers and I have worked in the orchard,
Digging this hole, laying you into it, carefully packing the soil.
Rain blackened the horizon, but cold winds kept it over the Pacific,
And the sky above us stayed the dull gray
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- Emigre In Autumn
Walking down the garden path
From the house you do not own,
Once again you think of how
Cool the autumns were at home.
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- Rough Country
Give me a landscape made of obstacles,
of steep hills and jutting glacial rock,
where the low-running streams are quick to flood
the grassy fields and bottomlands.
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- Insomnia
Now you hear what the house has to say.
Pipes clanking, water running in the dark,
the mortgaged walls shifting in discomfort,
and voices mounting in an endless drone
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- Pentecost
After the death of our son
Neither the sorrows of afternoon, waiting in the silent house,
Nor the night no sleep relieves, when memory
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- Hrk299: "where will it end? this grim cycle of workshops
churning out poems for little magazines?"
--dana gioia, 1983
- Cornishnye: “the unkillable poor”: dana gioia and alexander voloshin at the crossroads
- Dappledthings1: friday links with tamara nicholl-smith, trinity forum & makoto fujimura and dana gioia, terence sweeney, ben myers reviews j.c. scharl, jessica hooton wilson in church life journal
- Artsjournalnews: scott timberg and what happened to culture:
- Gallaghers: so right. but last week i stepped on a sea urchin (without the apology due it). then on the surfboard moping down at my black whiskered toes, a green sea turtle swam by a foot beneath me, like waikiki’s hotelscape had never happened. [dana gioia’s travel]
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