Dana Gioia on Learning, Poetry, and Studying with Miss Bishop

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🗓️ 15 February 2021

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Poet and author Dana Gioia talks about his book Studying with Miss Bishop with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. They talk about the craft of being a poet, the business world, mentorship, loss, why poetry no longer seems to matter, and how it might begin to matter again.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:06.4	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
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0:32.1	Today is January 22nd, 2021, and my guest is poet and author, Dana Joya.
0:38.1	His latest book is studying with Miss Bishop, memoirs from a young writer's life.
0:43.7	I want to thank Plantronics for providing today's guest with the Blackwire 5220 headset.
0:48.9	And I want to let listeners know that our poll of your favorite episodes of 2020 is closed
0:53.3	and results will be available soon. Dana, welcome to Econ Talk.
0:57.2	At the be here.
0:59.0	Your book is a very short, very beautifully crafted set of memoirs about a handful of people
1:06.0	who influenced your career as an aspiring writer and poet.
1:09.1	I want to back up a bit and talk about an essay you wrote about 30 years ago in the Atlantic
1:13.6	that got a great deal of attention.
1:15.9	The title of that essay was Can Poetry Matter.
1:21.1	One theme of that essay was that is the poetry matter is a lot less than it once did.
1:26.7	What do you think happened?
1:28.5	Well, let me recapitulate the argument in my book.
1:33.6	I point out a cultural paradox that there has never been a country in the history of the
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