Dana Gioia
Author of Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama
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
Backpack Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing (4th Edition) (1994) — Editor — 76 copies
100 Great Poets of the English Language (Penguin Academics Series) (Penguin Academics) (2004) 38 copies
Longman Anthology of Short Fiction, Compact Edition, The: Stories and Authors in Context (2002) 11 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
The Catholic Writer Today 2 copies
Dana Gioia and Fine Press Printing 2 copies
Planting A Sequoia 2 copies
A Catholic writer today 1 copy
The Ballad of Jesus Ortiz 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
Poetry as Enchantment 1 copy
The Apple Orchard 1 copy
Homage to Soren Kierkegaard 1 copy
My Handsome Cousin 1 copy
Praise to the Rituals 1 copy
Associated Works
Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work from Tennyson to Plath (2007) — Advisory Editor; Contributor — 147 copies
Seneca: The Tragedies (Complete Roman Drama in Translation) (2013) — Translator, some editions — 16 copies
This Man's Army: A War in Fifty-odd Sonnets (The Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War) (2008) — Introduction, some editions — 6 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Gioia, Dana
- Legal name
- Gioia, Michael Dana
- Birthdate
- 1950-12-24
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Hawthorne, California, USA
- Places of residence
- Santa Rosa, California, USA
Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, USA
Los Angeles, California, USA
Sonoma County, California, USA - Education
- Stanford University (BA, MBA)
Harvard University (MA - Comparative Literature) - Occupations
- poet
literary critic
editor
essayist
translator
librettist (show all 8)
professor
music critic - Relationships
- Gioia, Ted (brother)
- Organizations
- National Endowment for the Arts (chairman)
University of Southern California (professor)
General Foods Corporation (manager of new business development ∙ marketing manager ∙ vice-president)
Sequoia Magazine (editor)
Inquiry Magazine (editor)
Poetry Society of America (vice president) (show all 8)
San Francisco magazine (classical music critic)
College of Fellows of the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology (2008) - Awards and honors
- Presidential Citizens Medal (2008)
Laetare Medal (2010)
John Ciardi Award for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry (2005)
Aiken Taylor Award (2014)
Frederick Bock Award (1986)
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Statistics
- Works
- 61
- Also by
- 16
- Members
- 3,202
- Popularity
- #7,990
- Rating
- 4.0
- Reviews
- 25
- ISBNs
- 173
- Languages
- 1
- Favorited
- 2
- Touchstones
- 20