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7 Apr 2021 Conversations with Tyler Dana Gioia on Becoming an Information Billionaire
“Poe, I know pretty darn well, Samuel Johnson, and Wordsworth because I think, in my own work, both as a prose writer and as a creative writer, I can learn from them and my main goal right now is to finish a long poem that I started a few years ago, which stopped about a third of the way through so I can finish that.”
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…Very last question. What do you seek to learn next? If I were young, it would be Russian. What I’m doing right now is actually to go back and to relearn a lot of things that I had before. I just finished writing a 14,000-word essay on Charles Baudelaire, that’s going to be the introduction to a new edition of The Flowers of Evil. I knew Baudelaire’s work but spending several months rereading absolutely everything was, to me, illuminating and joyful. I plan to do this for a couple of other people. Poe, I know pretty darn well, Samuel Johnson, and Wordsworth because I think, in my own work, both as a prose writer and as a creative writer, I can learn from them and my main goal right now is to finish a long poem that I started a few years ago, which stopped about a third of the way through so I can finish that. Again, everyone the new book is Studying with Miss Bishop: Memoirs from a Young Writer’s Life by Dana Gioia, G-I-O-I-A. Dana Gioia, thank you very much. It’s been a real pleasure.…
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