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Pity the Beautiful: Poems
Book Details
Author(s)Gioia, Dana
PublisherGraywolf Press
ISBN / ASIN1555976131
ISBN-139781555976132
CategoryPoetry
MarketplaceUnited Kingdom 🇬🇧
Description
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.

