Dana Gioia: A Poet of All Trades

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Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 699 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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On this episode, Dana Gioia joins Mark Bauerlein to discuss his new book, “Meet Me at the Lighthouse: Poems.” Music by Advent Chamber Orchestra via Creative Commons.

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1:01.6	Dana Joya is with us today to discuss his new volume of poems called Meet Me at the Lighthouse.
1:08.5	I actually won't mention his previous volumes because I would like to discuss them in a moment.
1:11.7	Just I'll mention a few things from 2002 to 2009.
1:14.7	He was chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts.
1:18.5	And after that, he was professor at USC in Los Angeles.
1:19.4	Welcome, Dana.
1:21.1	Good to be here.
1:21.9	Okay.
1:30.0	Well, as I said, a moment ago, if we could, would you like to review your corpus with us a little bit?
1:33.1	What was your first volume of poetry?
1:39.3	Well, it's interesting that you asked me this question because I had not realized until a few days ago that if you looked at my books of poems, I published the first one, Daily Horoscope in the 80s,
1:46.8	the second one, Gods of Winter in the 90s, the third one, interrogations at noon, and the aughts,
1:55.6	the fourth one, Pity the Beautiful, in the teens.
2:00.1	I had a selected poems come out in the meantime, and now I've
2:02.8	published my new book, Meet Me at the Lighthouse, this year. And so I've published a book of
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