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"Gioia joins W. H. Auden, Randall Jarrell, and D. H. Lawrence in embracing criticism that is insightfully intellectual and surprisingly personal . . . Always a canny discussant of contemporary poetics, Gioia again provides vital guidance for evaluating poetry that...

  • Name : Poetry as Enchantment: And Other Essays
  • Vendor : Paul Dry Books
  • Type : Books
  • Manufacturing : 2024 / 11 / 12
  • Barcode : 9781589881952
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Poetry as Enchantment: And Other Essays
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"Gioia joins W. H. Auden, Randall Jarrell, and D. H. Lawrence in embracing criticism that is insightfully intellectual and surprisingly personal . . . Always a canny discussant of contemporary poetics, Gioia again provides vital guidance for evaluating poetry that will appeal to tenured professors and armchair aficionados alike."
―Booklist

Dana Gioia, one of America's leading poet-critics, explains why poetry exists and why we need it in this sparkling collection of essays.

More personal than any of Gioia's earlier works, Poetry as Enchantment reflects a lifetime of thought and experience. Gioia, the author of Can Poetry Matter?, talks about poetry in a radically different way than it is currently being taught or discussed. In the title essay, he explains that poetry is speech raised to the level of song, and though poetry may often be misunderstood as intellectual, it moves us the way music does. Poetry charms its readers, creating a heightened experience of attention. It addresses readers in the fullness of their humanity, simultaneously speaking to the mind, emotions, imagination, memory, and physical senses. Without academic jargon, Poetry as Enchantment relates literature to the questions of life.



Author: Dana Gioia
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Paul Dry Books
Published: 11/12/2024
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.90h x 4.90w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781589881952


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 10/01/2024 pg. 9

About the Author

Dana Gioia is a poet and critic. He has published six full-length collections of verse99 Poems: New & Selected won the Poets' Prize as the best new book of the year, and Interrogations at Noon won the American Book Awardand a memoir, Studying with Miss Bishop (Paul Dry Books, 2021). His controversial volume Can Poetry Matter? was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and is credited with helping revive the role of poetry in American public culture. Gioia has served as the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts and as California State Poet Laureate. He divides his time between Los Angeles and Sonoma County, California.


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