Research Catalog

Title

Pity the beautiful : poems / by Dana Gioia.

Author

Gioia, Dana

Publication

Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2012]

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

73 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"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 mature, as they make music, crack wise, remember the dead, and in a long, central poem even tell ghost stories." -- from publisher's website.

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

• 2000-2099
• American poetry > 21st century

Genre/Form

American poetry – 21st century.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

I. The present ; The angel with the broken wing ; Prophecy ; Reunion ; The road ; Shopping ; The lunatic, the lover, and the poet -- II. Prayer at winter solstice ; Finding a box of family letters ; The freeways considered as Earth gods ; Las animas / from the Italian of Mario Luzi ; Hunt / from the Italian of Mario Luzi ; The seven deadly sins ; Autumn inaugural ; Special treatments ward -- III. Haunted -- IV. Words for music ; Pity the beautiful ; The heart of the matter ; Cold San Francisco ; Four songs from Tony Caruso's final broadcast ; Marketing department trio ; Maria Callas's aria ; Tony's last aria ; Final duet -- V. The apple orchard ; One the shore / from the Italian of Mario Luzi ; Being happy ; The coat ; The argument ; My love, don't believe / from the Italian of Bartolo Cattafi ; These little birds / from the Italian of Bartolo Cattafi ; After a line of Neruda ; Who's there? ; Starting over ; Majority.

ISBN

• 9781555976132 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1555976131 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2012932783

OCLC

• 793132540
• SCSB-12101452

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library