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The gods of winter
poems
By Gioia, Dana
- ISBN
- 978-1-55597-148-9
- Publisher
- Saint Paul : Graywolf Press, 1991.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on May 1, 1991
The loss of a child permeates this second volume of poems from "a leader of the neo-formalist school of poetry,'' as Gioia is dubbed by his publisher. It is not the formalism that is of chief interest here--Gioia's prosody, while competent, can be a bit stiff and tidy--but the way some of these poems break out of bland formula into beauty. One ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
