Pity the Beautiful: Poems
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ISBN: 1555976131 / Publisher: Graywolf Press, May 2012
The fourth collection of poems by the author is the first in over a decade, featuring poems that make music, crack wise, remember the dead, and tell ghost stories.
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The long-awaited fourth collection by one of America's foremost poetsO 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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