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A wondrous new collection by Dana Gioia, "one of America's premier poets and critics" (Julia Alvarez).Dana Gioia has been hailed for decades as a master of traditional lyric forms, whose expansive and accessible poems are offerings of rare poignancy and insight. In Meet Me at the Lighthouse, he invites us back to old Los Angeles, where the shabby nightclub of the title beckons us into its noirish immortality. Elsewhere, he laments the once-vib...

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Poetry. Dana Gioia, known as a prolific, outspoken essayist and often both praised and attacked for his leadership of the New Formalist movement, is well respected as a serious critic of culture and poetry. In this new book, Gioia meditates on the uninvited epiphanies of middle age and marriage: the fleeting shadows of past loves, the bittersweet ambiguity of lifetime commitments, and the painful memories of lost opportunity. Unflinchingly fac...

Dana Gioia recalls his experience with two great teachers and other youthful encounters with poets-famous and unknown.

This new volume collects Gioia's essays on Christianity, literature, and the arts. His influential title essay ignited a national conversation about the role of Catholicism in American literature. Other pieces explore the often harrowing lives of Christian poets and painters as well as contemplate scripture and modern martyrdom.

Over the past decade Dana Gioia has emerged as a compelling advocate of Christianity's continuing importance in contemporary culture. His incisive and arresting essays have examined the spiritual dimensions of art and the decisive role faith has played in the lives of artists.

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In this first publication devoted to Tapia's artistic legacy, leading art historians, curators, and literary figures consider Tapia's art as a visual touchstone for a tradition in transition, one that Tapia continues to hold to and break through.

The long-awaited fourth collection by one of America's foremost poetsO Lord of indirection and ellipses, ignore our prayers. Deliver us from distraction.Slow our heartbeat to a cricket's call. --from "Prophecy"Pity the Beautiful is Dana Gioia's first new poetry book in over a decade. Its emotional revelations and careful construction are hard won, inventive, and resilient. These new poems show Gioia's craftsmanship at its finest, its most matu...

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So much of what we live goes on inside-The diaries of grief, the tongue-tied achesOf unacknowledged love are no less realFor having passed unsaid. What we concealIs always more than what we dare confide.Think of the letters that we write our dead.-from "Unsaid"Dana Gioia has long been celebrated as a poet of sharp intelligence and brooding emotion with an ingenious command of his craft. 99 Poems: New & Selected gathers for the first time work ...

This comprehensive chronological anthology includes 58 essays on poetry by 53 poets. Starting with James Weldon Johnson and Robert Frost, the book offers diverse and often conflicting accounts of the nature and function of poetry. The collection includes rarely anthologized essays by Jack Spicer, Rhina Espaillat, Anne Stevenson, and Ron Silliman, as well as work by some of the finest younger critics in America, including William Logan, Alice F...

Now in paperback, a major career retrospective by the California Poet Laureate, Dana GioiaSo much of what we live goes on inside-The diaries of grief, the tongue-tied achesOf unacknowledged love are no less realFor having passed unsaid. What we concealIs always more than what we dare confide.Think of the letters that we write our dead.-from "Unsaid"Dana Gioia has long been celebrated as a poet of sharp intelligence and brooding emotion with an...

In a brilliant array of essays that tests the pulse of traditional and contemporary poetry, Gioia ("Can Poetry Matter?") ponders the future of the written word and how it might find its most relevant incarnation.

In 1991, Dana Gioia's provocative essay "Can Poetry Matter?" was published in the "Atlantic Monthly, " and received more public response than any other piece in the magazine's history. In his book, Gioia more fully addressed the question: Is there a place for poetry to be part of modern American mainstream culture? Ten years later, the debate is as lively and heated as ever. Graywolf is pleased to re-issue this highly acclaimed collection in a...

I am the past that feeds upon the present." "I am the darkness that daylight denies." "I am the sins that you must inherit--" "The final truth in a world full of lies." Based on F.W. Murnau's 1922 silent vampire film--a classic of German Expressionist cinema--Gioia's "Nosferatu" creates a poetic version of the Dracula story in the form of an opera libretto. Written for the neoromantic composer Alva Henderson, the opera "Nosferatu" has bee...

The latest offering in the Poets on Poetry series from the acclaimed poet, critic, and current chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts