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99 Poems
99 Poems: New & Selected | Dana Gioia
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So much of what we live goes on inside-- The diaries of grief, the tongue-tied aches Of unacknowledged love are no less real For having passed unsaid. What we conceal Is always more than what we dare confide. Think of the letters that we write our dead. --"Unsaid" Dana Gioia has long been celebrated as a poet of profound intelligence and powerful emotion, with lines made from ingenious craftsmanship. 99 Poems: New & Selected for the first time gathers work from across his career, including a dozen remarkable new poems. Gioia has not ordered this selection chronologically. Instead, his great subjects organize this volume into broad themes of mystery, remembrance, imagination, place, stories, songs, and love. The result is a book we might live our lives alongside, and a reminder of the deep and abiding pleasures and reassurances that poetry provides us.
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TheSpineView Beautiful 2y
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TheSpineView Perfect! 😍😍😍 4y
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TheSpineView Beautiful! 💜 5y
llwheeler Oh I love this. Thanks for posting 5y
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We had the luck, if you can call it that, Of having been in love but never lovers... - The Apple Orchard by Dana Gioia. Tonight I attended a recital of music by Lori Laitman. Each of the songs were poems that she set to music; the poets included Emily Dickinson, Sara Teasdale, Margaret Atwood, and the writer of this poem, Dana Gioia. I adore this line. #danagioia #artsong #poetry #theappleorchard #music #bookstagram

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Congrats on the milestone @MaleficentBookDragon ⭐️💫💥!

I love games and growing up we played 99 for pennies! Lots of fun memories. Despite the practice counting, I still don‘t like numbers. 😜 #letsplayagame

Bostonmomx2 That sounds like a super fun game! 7y
Tamra @Bostonmomx2 this has reminded me to teach my own kids how to play! 😁 7y
Cortg Thanks for this post! I‘m doing a math games program on Pi Day in March. I‘ll add this to my list! 7y
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Tamra @Cortg 👍🏾 This game is easily modified to suit players. 😊 7y
tomes4gnomes I love 99! My grandpa taught us how to play. ❤️ 7y
MaleficentBookDragon I‘ve played a bunch of card games but cannot play for money. I am terrible and always lose. Thanks for entering! 7y
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This is likely my favorite poem that I've ever read.

#LitsyPoetry365

LauraBeth This beautifully captures that every marriage is unique and that there will never be another marriage that is like yours 💕 8y
DeborahSmall Beautiful 💞 8y
LeahBergen I love it. 8y
Cinfhen Love that😍thanks for sharing 8y
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A 🤘🏻 but leaning half-way to 👋🏻 (so-so).

Beautifully wrought and precise poetry but very bloodless at times. Some are meant to be Poe-like, but I don't get a chill. Some are melancholy, but I don't feel it. The best sections are III (Remembrance) and IV (Imagination) where emotion begins to come through. I often found myself admiring the construction not the subject. He has a whip-crack jab at MFA programs in My Confessional Sestina (p86).

EvieBee You Kafka mug is awesome! 8y
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The snark, it burns. 😂 (this is a very abrupt change in tone from previous poems which are very somber)

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Dana Gioia giving a reading and talk in Redding, CA. August, 2016.

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Saw this article in today's paper (Philly Inquirer) and am adding Dana Gioa's poetry to my to-read list. I'm very intrigued! (Sorry the photo cut out the last column).

WordWaller Yay Graywolf! I heard so many good things about him from their staff. 8y
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Love this poem "The Road" by Dan Gioia - California's poet laureate. He's trying to visit all 50+ counties to have at least one poetry reading.

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I love that this collection is organized by themes like mystery, place, imagination and love. His poems set in California feel so much like growing up in Silicon Valley. I describe him as a man's poet - his work seems easy to understand, but has a whole level of complexity below the surface.

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Amazing poetry reading at kepler's bookstore in Menlo Park, CA from California's poet laureate. Great poems about California and just life. So interesting to hear his poems and the meanings behind them. Best advice on how to hear / understand poetry? Read it to someone you love.