Pity the Beautiful Poems

Name: Pity the Beautiful Poems
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ISBN: 9781555976132

ISBN-10: 1555976131

ISBN-13: 9781555976132

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Authors: Dana Gioia

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The long-awaited fourth collection by one of America's foremost poets O Lord of indirection and ellipses,ignore our prayers. Deliver us from distraction.Slow our heartbeat to a cricket's call. --from “Prophecy” Pity the Beautifulis Dana Gioia's first new poetry book in over a decade. Its emotional revelations and careful construction are hard won, inventive, and resilient. These new poems show Gioia's craftsmanship at its finest, its most mature, as they make music, crack wise, remember the dead, and in a long, central poem even tell ghost stories.

Book details

List price: $16.00
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Publication date: 5/8/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 88
Size: 5.69" wide x 8.95" long x 0.26" tall
Weight: 0.308
Language: English




The Present


The Angel with the Broken Wing


Prophecy


Reunion


The Road


Shopping


The Lunatic, The Lover, and The Poet



Prayer at Winter Solstice


Finding A Box Of Family Letters


The Freeways Considered as Earth Gods


Las Animas (Luzi)


Hunt (Luzi)


The Seven Deadly Sins


Autumn Inaugural


Special Treatments Ward



Haunted



Words For Music


Pity The Beautiful


The Heart of the Matter


Cold San Francisco


Four Songs from Tont Caruso's Final Broadcast



Marketing Department Trio



Maria Callas's Aria



Tony's Last Aria



Final Duet



The Apple Orchard


On The Shore (Luzi)


Being Happy


The Coat


The Argument


My Love, Don't Believe (Cattafi)


These Little Birds (Cattafi)


After A Line of Neruda


Who's There?


Starting Over


Majority


Notes on the Poems