100 Great Poets of the English Language (Penguin Academics Series) (Penguin Academics) Tapa blanda - 2004

Dana Gioia is a poet, critic, and teacher. Born in Los Angeles, he attended Stanford and Harvard before taking a detour into business. ("Not many poets have a Stanford M.B.A., thank goodness!") After years of writing and reading late in the evenings after work, he quit a vice presidency to write and teach. He has published three collections of poetry: "Daily Horoscope" (1986); "The Gods of Winter" (1991); "Interrogations at Noon" (2001), winner of the 2001 American Book Award; an opera libretto, "Nosferatu" (2002); several anthologies; and an influential study of poetry s place in contemporary America, "Can Poetry Matter?" (1992). Gioia has taught at Johns Hopkins, Sarah Lawrence, Wesleyan (Connecticut), Mercer, and Colorado College. He is also the co-founder of the summer poetry conference at West Chester University in Pennsylvania and a frequent commentator on literature for the British Broadcasting Corporation. He currently lives in Santa Rosa, California, with his wife, Mary, two sons, and an ever growing number of cats.