Research Catalog

Title

Conversations with Dana Gioia / edited by John Zheng.

Author

Gioia, Dana

Publication

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2021]

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Details

Additional Authors

Zheng, Jianqing

Description

xxviii, 251 pages; 23 cm.

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, and provide a personal encounter with a writer who has made poetry matter. The book presents the actual voice of Dana Gioia, who speaks of his personal and creative life and articulates his unique vision of American culture and poetry"--

Series Statement

Literary conversations series

Uniform Title

Literary conversations series.

Subject

• Gioia, Dana > Interviews
• Gioia, Dana
• 2000-2099
• Poets, American > 21st century > Interviews
• Poets, American

Genre/Form

Interviews.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / John Zheng -- Chronology -- Dana Gioia: an interview / Robert McPhillips -- Dana Gioia: Interview / Isabelle Cartwright -- Poetry: Paradigms lost: interview with Dana Gioia / Gloria Glickstein Brame -- On writing Nosferatu and the role of poet as librettist / LeQuita Vance-Watkins -- An interview with Dana Gioia / Kevin Bezner -- Dana Gioia interview / Christina Vick -- An interview with Dana Gioia / William Baer -- Dana Gioia and the role of the poet-critic: an interview / Garrick Davis -- Bringing art to all Americans: a conversation with Dana Gioia / Michael J. Bandler -- Money talks: a conversation with Dana Gioia / Johanna Keller -- "If any fire endures beyond its flame": an interview with Dana Gioia / Robert Lance Snyder -- A public Catholic: an interview with 2010 Laetare Medalist Dana Gioia / Cynthia L. Haven -- An interview with Dana Gioia / Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum -- An interview with Dana Gioia / Laura Lindsley -- How a poem happens: Dana Gioia / Brian Brodeur -- Poetic collaborations: a conversation with Dana Gioia / Michelle Johnson -- A conversation with Dana Gioia / Erika Koss -- Dana Gioia, poet / Michael Passafiume -- An interview with Dana Gioia / Mia Herman -- Interview with Dana Gioia / John Cusatis -- The California imagination: Dana Gioia / Maggie Paul -- "This poem has had a strange destiny": interview with Dana Gioia about "The Ballad of Jesus Ortiz" / John Zheng -- Bibliography -- Index.

Call Number

JFE 21-3172

ISBN

• 9781496832030
• 1496832035
• 9781496832047
• 1496832043

LCCN

• 2020028472
• 40030288479

OCLC

1154127578

Author

Gioia, Dana, interviewee.

Title

Conversations with Dana Gioia / edited by John Zheng.

Publisher

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2021]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Literary conversations series

Literary conversations series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Added Author

Zheng, Jianqing, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Conversations with Dana Gioia Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2021. 9781496832061 (DLC) 2020028473

Other Standard Identifier

40030288479

Research Call Number

JFE 21-3172