{"product_id":"99-poems-new-selected-9781555977719","title":"99 Poems: New \u0026 Selected","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNow in paperback, a major career retrospective by the California Poet Laureate, Dana Gioia\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo much of what we live goes on inside--\u003cbr\u003eThe diaries of grief, the tongue-tied aches\u003cbr\u003eOf unacknowledged love are no less real\u003cbr\u003eFor having passed unsaid. What we conceal\u003cbr\u003eIs always more than what we dare confide.\u003cbr\u003eThink of the letters that we write our dead.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e--from \"Unsaid\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDana Gioia has long been celebrated as a poet of sharp intelligence and brooding emotion with an ingenious command of his craft. \u003ci\u003e99 Poems: New \u0026amp; Selected\u003c\/i\u003e gathers for the first time work from across his career, including many remarkable new poems. Gioia has not arranged this selection chronologically but instead has organized it by theme in seven sections: Mystery, Place, Remembrance, Imagination, Stories, Songs, and Love. The result is a book that reveals and renews the pleasures, consolations, and sense of wonder that poetry bestows.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDana Gioia\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning poet, critic, and librettist. From 2003 to 2009, he served as the chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, and he currently lectures at the University of Southern California.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50492884025618,"sku":"9781555977719","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_718624df-eb0e-41dc-929a-3db45fba017f.jpg?v=1730612678","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/99-poems-new-selected-9781555977719","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}