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Today’s poem is Dana Gioia’s interpretive spin on a Rilke poem about (among other things) poetics.
Dana Gioia is an internationally acclaimed poet and writer. Former California Poet Laureate and Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, Gioia was born in Los Angeles of Italian and Mexican descent. The first person in his family to attend college, he received a B.A. and M.B.A. from Stanford and an M.A. from Harvard in Comparative Literature. For fifteen years he worked as a businessman before quitting at forty-one to become a full-time writer.
His surname is pronounced Joy-a.
-bio via DanaGioia.com
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