Interrogations at Noon: Poems
by Dana Gioia
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Winner of the American Book Award Dana Gioia, an internationally known poet and critic, is notably prolific with his essays, reviews, translations, and anthologies. But like his celebrated teacher, Elizabeth Bishop, Gioia is meticulously painstaking and self-critical about his own poems. In an active 25-year career he has published only two previous volumes of poetry. Although Gioia is often recognized as a leading force in the recent revival of rhyme and meter in American poetry, his own show more work does not fit neatly into any onestyle. Interrogations at Noon displays an extraordinary range of style and sensibility--from rhymed couplets to free verse, from surrealist elegy to satirical ballad. What unites the poems is not a single approach but their resonant musicality and powerful but understated emotion. This new collection explores the uninvited epiphanies of love and marriage, probing the quiet mysteries of a seemingly settled domestic life. Meditating on the inescapable themes of lyric poetry--time, mortality, nature, and the contradictions of the human heart--Gioia turns them to provocative and unexpected ends. show lessTags
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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 for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Gioia show more has served as the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts and California State Poet Laureate. show less
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