Thursday, November 30, 2017

How Dana Gioia Composes His Poems (Very Physically)

BBC World Service's In the Studio visits the California poet laureate and former NEA chairman at his hilltop retreat, where he talks about how he feels a poem coming on physically and has to walk around as he's composing it - as well as the origin of the ballad he wrote about the death of his Mexican-American cowboy grandfather in Wyoming. (audio)



Article source here:Arts Journal

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