Dana Gioia is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning poet. Former Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, Gioia is a native Californian of Italian and Mexican descent. He received a B.A. and a M.B.A. from Stanford University and an M.A. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University. He won the 2018 Poets' Prize for his collection 99 Poems: New and Selected. Gioia currently serves as the Poet Laureate of California, teaches at the University of Southern California, and has written five volumes of poetry, as well as the influential essay collection Can Poetry Matter?
À en croire le nombre de poètes contemporains, il serait tentant de penser que nous vivons un âge d’or de la poésie. Évidemment, il n’en est rien. Dona Gioia pose ici un regard acerbe sur la moindre exigence esthétique des poètes d’aujourd’hui. Cette crise de la poésie est symptomatique...
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