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“What we conceal Is always more than what we dare confide. Think of the letters that we write our dead.”

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This volume brings together a curated selection of poetry, showcasing the author's range and depth in the art form. It includes both previously published and previously unseen poems, offering readers a comprehensive view of the poet's work. more

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Dana Gioia

Dana Gioia, born on December 24, 1950, is an accomplished American poet known for his profound emotions and rich imagination in his works. more

“Paradoxically, the simpler poetry is, the more difficult it becomes for a critic to discuss intelligently. Trained to explicate, the critic often loses the ability to evaluate literature outside the critical act. A work is good only in proportion to the richness and complexity of interpretations it provokes.”

Literature Difficult Loses Ability Critics Critical Complexity Proportion Poetry Is Interpretation Provoking Richness Evaluate

Book:Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture

Source: Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture

“Being so deeply rooted in one place and culture allows a genuine writer to experiment wildly with the material without ever losing touch with its essence.”

Culture Materials Losing Essence Genuine Experiments Rooted

Book:Barrier of a common language: an American looks at contemporary British poetry

Source: Barrier of a common language: an American looks at contemporary British poetry

“In America, the term younger poet is applied with chivalric liberality. It can be used to describe anyone not yet collecting a Social Security pension.”

America Used Social Term Security Poet Social Security Collecting Pension Liberality

Author:Dana Gioia

“In an age of global standardization, regional voices also remind both writer and reader that no life is lived generically. If the purpose of literature is truly, as the ancients insisted, to instruct and delight, then what better to understand and enjoy than the here and the now?”

Ifs Age Life Is Purpose Literature Enjoy Voice Reader Delight Standardization

Author:Dana Gioia

“To speak from a particular place and time is not provincialism but part of a writer's identity.”

Speak Identity Particular Place And Time Provincialism

Author:Dana Gioia

“Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones.”

Modern Poet Appeals Empires

Book:Barrier of a common language: an American looks at contemporary British poetry

Source: Barrier of a common language: an American looks at contemporary British poetry

“Poetry is not a creed or dogma. It is a special way of speaking and listening.”

Way Special Listening Poetry Is Creeds Dogma

Author:Dana Gioia

“Once an author finishes a poem, he becomes merely another reader. I may remember what I intended to put into a text, but what matters is what a reader actually finds there which is usually something both more and less than the poet planned.”

May Matter Remember Poet Reader What Matters

Author:Dana Gioia

“Twisting through the thorn-thick underbrush, scratched and exhausted, one turns suddenly to find an unexpected waterfall, not half a mile from the nearest road, a spot so hard to reach that no one comes a hiding place, a shrine for dragonflies and nesting jays, a sign that there is still one piece of property that won't be owned.”

Stills Hard Turns Half Pieces Property Miles Spots Unexpected Hiding Thick Exhausted One Piece Shrines Waterfalls Hiding Place Dragonflies

Book:99 Poems: New & Selected

Source: 99 Poems: New & Selected

“The autumn comes, a maiden fair In slenderness and grace, With nodding rice-stems in her hair And lilies in her face. In flowers of grasses she is clad; And as she moves along, Birds greet her with their cooing glad Like bracelets' tinkling song.”

Faces Moving Song Grace Flower Hair Bird Fairs Glad Grass Autumn Stem Rice Lilies Maidens Nodding Bracelet

Book:Kalidasa translations of Shakuntala, and other works

Source: Kalidasa translations of Shakuntala, and other works

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