Results for "Gioia, Dana"

On the 200th anniversary of Baudelaire’s birth comes this stunning landmark translation of the book that launched modern poetry. Known to his contemporaries primarily as an art critic, but ambitious to secure a more lasting literary legacy, Charles Baudelaire, a Parisian bohemian, spent much of the ... Read More about The Flowers of Evil: (Les Fleurs du Mal)

A wondrous new collection by Dana Gioia, “one of America’s premier poets and critics” (Julia Alvarez).Dana Gioia has been hailed for decades as a master of traditional lyric forms, whose expansive and accessible poems are offerings of rare poignancy and insight. In Meet Me at the Lighthouse, he invi... Read More about Meet Me at the Lighthouse: Poems

The long-awaited definitive work on master wood engraver Paul Landacre (1893–1963), a key figure of California modernism With his virtuosic prints of rolling California hills, classically inspired nudes, and natural and manmade forms—from a seashell to his own printing press—Paul Landacre elevated w... Read More about Paul Landacre: California Hills, Hollywood, and the World Beyond: A Catalogue Raisonné

Dana Gioia, one of America's leading poet-critics, explains why poetry exists and why we need it in this sparkling collection of essays. More personal than any of Gioia's earlier works, Poetry as Enchantment reflects a lifetime of thought and experience. Gioia, the author of Can Poetry Matter?, tal... Read More about Poetry as Enchantment

A unique book about opera--personal, impassioned, and provocative. Weep, Shudder, Die explores opera from the perspective by which the art was originally created, as the most intense form of poetic drama. The great operas have an essential connection to poetry, song, and the primal power of the hum... Read More about Weep, Shudder, Die: On Opera and Poetry

This affordably-priced collection presents masterpieces of short fiction from 52 of the greatest story writers of all time. From Sherwood Anderson to Virginia Woolf, this anthology encompasses a rich global and historical mix of the very best works of short fiction and presents them in a way student... Read More about The Art of the Short Story