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7 Apr 2021 Conversations with Tyler Dana Gioia on Becoming an Information Billionaire
“We’re doing these things and he believes and I believe he’s one that goads me to do this is that we need to find a way of speaking about poetry in our culture.”
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- Dana Gioia
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- 7 Apr 2021
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…I have just a few basic questions to close. First, if someone wants to pursue Dana Gioia as a poet, what should they actually go out and do? What’s the first act they should take? The first act they should take is learn how to spell my name, which is not self-explanatory in the Anglophonic world. Then I think just go to danagioia.com, which is my website, or even better yet, just go to YouTube, put in Dana Gioia Poems, or Dana Gioia. One of my sons is filmmaker. I’ve done about 20 short films with him. Some are only one or two minutes long. You can hear my poetry, you can hear some lectures. Yesterday, in fact, I put up an 11-minute lecture on Robert Frost. We’re doing these things and he believes and I believe he’s one that goads me to do this is that we need to find a way of speaking about poetry in our culture. It’s not happening in the universities, it’s not happening in the mass media. To do really good short films on poetry, I think has a tremendous cultural value. I’ve done one of these podcasts with your brother Ted, obviously, you know Ted.…
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