Poetry as enchantment : and other essays / Dana Gioia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gioia, Dana, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry--Appreciation.

Poetry.

Poetry--History and criticism.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

xvii. 272 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Paul Dry Books edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Paul Dry Books, 2024.

Summary:

"In the essays in Poetry as Enchantment-more personal than any of his earlier works-Dana Gioia shares a lifetime of thought and experience about poetry. 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 sense. Without academic jargon, Poetry as Enchantment relates literature to the questions of life."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

I. Essays. Poetry as enchantment

Class struggle: Donald Davie at Stanford

Robert Frost and the modern narrative poem

The unknown soldier: The war poetry of John Allan Wyeth

II. Short takes. Where home may be: Elizabeth Bishop

Blindingly undiminished; Philip Larkin

"I am the King's son": Samuel Menashe

Good poems: Garrison Keillor

Back from oblivion: Weldon Kees

In praise of Lim: Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Heaney in Hades: Seamus Heaney's Virgil

The last of the great quarterlies: Frederick Morgan and the Hudson Review

III. West Coast reports. Ray Bradbury's butterfly effect

"Just one damn thing after another": Jack Foley's literary timeline

Los Angeles as a cultural home

The state of poetry: Loud and live.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1589881958

9781589881952

OCLC:

1428896440