| Description |
194 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
I. Mystery -- The burning ladder -- Insomnia -- The stars rearrange themselves -- Nothing is lost -- Do not expect -- Beware of things duplicate -- Maze without a minotaur -- Words -- Interrogations at noon -- Entrance -- New Year's -- The angel with the broken wings -- Prophecy -- The road -- Prayer at winter solstice -- Monster -- Homage to Soren Kierkegaard -- II. Place -- California hills in August -- Cruising with the beach boys -- In chandler country -- In Cheever country -- The garden on the Campagna -- Most journeys come to this -- Waiting in the airport -- Men after work -- Rough country -- Becoming a redwood -- A California requiem -- The end of the world -- Shopping -- Sea pebbles: An elegy -- Vultures mating -- III. Remembrance -- Prayer -- Night watch -- Veterans' cemetery -- The song -- The Gods of winter -- Planting a sequoia -- Metamorphosis -- Pentecost -- The litany -- Unsaid -- Finding a box of family letters -- Special treatments ward -- Majority -- My handsome cousin -- IV. Elegy for Vladmir de Pachmann -- Lives of the great composers -- God only knows -- A curse on geographers -- A short history of tabacco -- Guide to the other gallery -- My confessional sestina -- The silence of the poets -- Money -- The next poem -- Elegy with surrealist proverbs as refrain -- Autumn Inaugural -- The seven deadly sins -- Deal with the devil -- Meditation on a line from novalis -- Title index to my next book of poems -- V. Stories -- The room upstairs -- Counting the children -- Homecoming -- Haunted -- Style -- VI. Songs -- The country wife -- Song for the end times -- The archbishop -- Nosferatu's serenade -- Mad song -- Alley cat love song -- Marketing department trio -- Pity the beautiful -- Reunion -- The heart of the matter -- Cold San Francisco -- Household Gods -- Film -- VII. Love -- Thanks for remembering us -- The sunday news -- Speech from a novella -- Speaking of love -- Equations of the light -- The voyeur -- Spider in the corner -- Summer storm -- The lost garden -- Being happy -- The present -- The lunatic, the lover, and the poet -- The apple orchard -- Come back -- An old story -- Marriage of many years -- Note on the texts -- Index. |
| Summary |
Dana Gioia has long been celebrated as a poet of profound intelligence and powerful emotion, with lines made from ingenious craftsmanship.99 Poems: New & Selected for the first time gathers work from across his career, including a dozen remarkable new poems. Gioia has not ordered this selection chronologically. Instead, his great subjects organize this volume into broad themes of mystery, remembrance, imagination, place, stories, songs, and love. The result is a book we might live our lives alongside, and a reminder of the deep and abiding pleasures and reassurances that poetry provides us. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 21st century.
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| Genre |
Poetry.
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| Added Title |
Ninety-nine poems |
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Poems. Selections.
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| ISBN |
9781555977320 (hardcover) |
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1555977324 (hardcover) |
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