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Dana Gioia

Author of Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama

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About the Author

Dana Gioia is a poet and critic. He has published five collections of poetry, most recently 99 Poems: New Selected, which won the Poets' Prize. His child collection, Interrogations at Noon, was awarded the American Book Award. Gioia's first critical collection, Can Poetry Matter?, was a finalist show more for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Gioia has served as the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts and California State Poet Laureate. show less

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Works by Dana Gioia

Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Editor — 902 copies
An Introduction to Poetry (1966) 570 copies
The Art of the Short Story (2005) 267 copies
Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture (1992) 243 copies
An Introduction to Fiction (1979) — Editor — 141 copies
The Gods of Winter: Poems (1991) 95 copies
Interrogations at Noon (2001) 84 copies
Twentieth-Century American Poetry (2003) 81 copies
99 Poems: New and Selected (2016) 79 copies
Backpack Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing (4th Edition) (1994) — Editor — 76 copies
Twentieth-Century American Poetics: Poets on the Art of Poetry (2003) 72 copies
Pity the Beautiful: Poems (2012) 71 copies
The Best American Poetry 2018 (2018) — Editor — 71 copies
Daily Horoscope (1986) 57 copies
Disappearing Ink: Poetry at the End of Print Culture (2004) 47 copies
100 Great Poets of the English Language (Penguin Academics Series) (Penguin Academics) (2004) 38 copies
California Poetry: From the Gold Rush to the Present (2003) — Editor — 30 copies
Studying with Miss Bishop: Memoirs from a Young Writer’s Life (2021) 25 copies
New Italian Poets (1991) 21 copies
Valueware (1999) 20 copies
The Catholic Writer Today: And Other Essays (2019) 20 copies
Poems from Italy (1972) — Editor — 18 copies
Mottetti (1990) — Translator — 18 copies
Meet Me at the Lighthouse: Poems (2023) 16 copies
The Longman Masters of Short Fiction (2001) 16 copies
The Longman dictionary of literary terms : vocabulary for the informed reader (2005) 14 copies
The Misread City: New Literary Los Angeles (1869) — Editor — 14 copies
Ceremony and Other Stories (1984) — Editor — 12 copies
Longman Anthology of Short Fiction, Compact Edition, The: Stories and Authors in Context (2002) 11 copies
Nosferatu (2001) 11 copies
The Longman Anthology of Short Fiction: Stories and Authors in Context (2000) 10 copies
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing, Compact Edition (6th Edition) (2009) — Editor — 6 copies
Barrier of a Common Language: An American Looks at Contemporary British Poetry (Poets on Poetry) (2003) 5 copies
Certain Solitudes: On the Poetry of Donald Justice (1998) 5 copies
Journeys in sunlight (1986) 3 copies
The Fallen Western Star Wars: A Debate About Literary California (2001) 3 copies
The Catholic Writer Today 2 copies
Dana Gioia and Fine Press Printing 2 copies
Homage to Søren Kierkegaard: Poems in Memory of Reverend Ronald Marshall 2 copies
Teaching Composition with Literature (1998) 2 copies
Planting A Sequoia 2 copies
The Grapes of Wrath Reader's Guide, The Big Read (The Big Read) 1 copy
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience 1 copy
A Catholic writer today 1 copy
The Ballad of Jesus Ortiz 1 copy
Nosferatu: An opera in two acts (1998) 1 copy
National Endowment for the Arts Reader's Guide: Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God 1 copy
Teaching Shakespeare 1 copy
For the Birth of Christ 1 copy
On Being a California Poet 1 copy
American Poetics: Poets on the Art of Poetry 1 copy
READER'S GUIDE , TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (2005) 1 copy
Poetry as Enchantment 1 copy
Remembrance. Michael Jasper Gioia. 1 copy
Books Enlarge, Enhance, and Refine Our Humanity 1 copy
The Apple Orchard 1 copy
Homage to Soren Kierkegaard 1 copy
My Handsome Cousin 1 copy
Praise to the Rituals 1 copy
The Catholic Writer Today [Wiseblood Essays in Contemporary Culture] 1 copy
Formal Introduction: An Investigative Anthology 1 copy
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Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry (2003) — Contributor — 759 copies
The Best American Poetry 1997 (1997) — Contributor — 166 copies
Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work from Tennyson to Plath (2007) — Advisory Editor; Contributor — 147 copies
The Best American Poetry 2016 (2016) — Contributor — 98 copies
The Spoken Word Revolution Redux (2007) — Contributor — 84 copies
Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism (1996) — Contributor — 80 copies
My California: Journeys By Great Writers (2004) — Contributor — 53 copies
St. Peter's B-list: Contemporary Poems Inspired by the Saints (2014) — Contributor — 25 copies
Selected Short Stories of Weldon Kees (1984) — Editor, some editions — 24 copies
Sweet Nothings: An Anthology of Rock and Roll in American Poetry (1994) — Contributor — 21 copies
Constructing Nature: Readings from the American Experience (1996) — Contributor — 17 copies
Seneca: The Tragedies (Complete Roman Drama in Translation) (2013) — Translator, some editions — 16 copies
The Big Read: Fahrenheit 451 Radio Program (2006) — Narrator, some editions — 7 copies
This Man's Army: A War in Fifty-odd Sonnets (The Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War) (2008) — Introduction, some editions — 6 copies
An Introduction To: The Joy Luck Club (2006) — Narrator — 4 copies
Reading at risk : a survey of literary reading in America (2015) — Foreword — 2 copies

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Pity the Beautiful: Poems by Dana Gioia
"Haunted" is the sort of poem I can imagine becoming a classic of American poetry.
 
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judeprufrock | 3 other reviews | Jul 4, 2023 |
Art of the Short Story, The by Dana Gioia
Great selection, essays, editing. Didnt read everything in this of course.
 
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The "Fallen Western Star" wars : a debate about… by Jack Foley
In 1998 Dana Gioia published an article titled Fallen Western Star: The Decline of San Francisco as a Literary Region. It's a convincing and nostalgic look at San Francisco's history as place where brilliant writers would meet and exchange ideas. But sadly, those days are gone, according to Gioia. This book collects that essay as well as many responses to it. As one might expect, the backlash was pretty fierce and debates were heated -- which I suspect is exactly what Gioia was aiming for. Implying that literary debates were few and far between these days, he set out to create one, and did a pretty good job.

This volume is very short, highly entertaining, and inspiring!… (more)
 
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