Pity the Beautiful

Pity the Beautiful
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Publisher : Graywolf Press
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1555976131
ISBN-13 : 9781555976132
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Book Synopsis Pity the Beautiful by : Dana Gioia

Download or read book Pity the Beautiful written by Dana Gioia and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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