Pity the Beautiful
Dana Gioia$13.60
$16.00
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 Beautiful is 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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 05/08/2012
ISBN: 9781555976132
Pages: 73
Weight: 0.29lbs
Size: 8.99h x 5.55w x 0.27d
Review Citations: Booklist 04/01/2012 pg. 19
Shelf Awareness 05/18/2012
Christian Century 02/06/2013 pg. 39