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Poems

Scroll down for links to poems from earlier publications. Here, Dana Gioia recites several poems from 99 Poems: New and Selected:

Selected Poems

From 99 Poems (2016)

  • Marriage of Many Years
  • Progress Report
  • Homage to Soren Kierkegaard

From Pity the Beautiful (2012)

  • The Angel with the Broken Wing
  • The Apple Orchard
  • The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet
  • Majority
  • Pity the Beautiful

From Interrogations at Noon (2001)

  • Litany
  • The Lost Garden
  • Summer Storm
  • Unsaid
  • Words

From The Gods of Winter (1991)

  • Money
  • The Next Poem
  • Planting a Sequoia
  • Prayer
  • Rough Country

From Daily Horoscope (1986)

  • The Burning Ladder
  • California Hills in August
  • The Country Wife
  • Insomnia
  • Sunday Night in Santa Rosa

Selected translations by Dana Gioia

  • Entrance (Rainer Maria Rilke)
  • On Approaching Forty (Mario Luzi)
  • Orchestra (Nina Cassian)
  • Especially in Weeping (Valerio Magrelli)

Dana Gioia’s poems in Spanish

  • Palabras (Words)
  • La Escala Ardiente (The Burning Ladder)
  • La Esposa de Provencia (The Country Wife)
  • Insomnio (Insomnia)
  • El Fin (The End)

La oscuridad intacta, a selection of Dana Gioia’s poems translated into Spanish by the Costa Rican poet Gustavo Solorzano-Alfaro, has recently been published by Pre-Textos (Madrid, Buenos Aires, Valencia). The book surveys Gioia’s poetic career and includes two critical essays about his work. More here.