Librettist Dana Gioia and composer Lori Laitman interviewed by Susan Dormady Eisenberg.
Lori Laitman and Dana Gioia on The Three Feathers
A Poet Reflects on Our Times (The Catholic World Report)
A review of Pity the Beautiful by Ann Applegarth:
When Dana Gioia (pronounced JOY-uh) was appointed Judge Widney Professor of Poetry and Public Culture at the University of Southern California, the position he now holds, David St. John of USC described his new colleague as “partly an old-fashioned storyteller and partly a metaphysical poet of reflection and devotion.”
In Pity the Beautiful, Gioia’s long-awaited fourth volume of poems, the poet wears both hats with grace. The 32 poems manage to soar toward the tip of heaven while remaining firmly grounded in the daily lives and loves of real and imaginary people who populate his poetic earth.