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Meet Me at the Lighthouse

- Poems
Af: Dana Gioia Engelsk Paperback

Meet Me at the Lighthouse

- Poems
Af: Dana Gioia Engelsk Paperback
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A wondrous new collection by Dana Gioia, “one of America’s premier poets and critics” (Julia Alvarez).

Dana Gioia has been hailed for decades as a master of traditional lyric forms, whose expansive and accessible poems are offerings of rare poignancy and insight. In Meet Me at the Lighthouse, he invites us back to old Los Angeles, where the shabby nightclub of the title beckons us into its noirish immortality. Elsewhere, he laments the once-vibrant neighborhood where he grew up, now bulldozed, and recalls his working-class family of immigrants. Gioia describes a haunting from his mother on his birthday, Christmas Eve. Another poem remembers his uncle, a US Merchant Marine. And “The Ballad of Jesús Ortiz” tells the story of his great-grandfather, a Mexican vaquero who was shot dead at a tavern in Wyoming during a dispute over a bar tab. “I praise my ancestors, the unkillable poor,” Gioia writes. This book is dedicated to their memory.

Including poems, song lyrics, translations, and concluding with an unsettling train ride to the underworld, Meet Me at the Lighthouse is a luminous exploration of nostalgia, mortality, and what makes a life worth living and remembering.

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A wondrous new collection by Dana Gioia, “one of America’s premier poets and critics” (Julia Alvarez).

Dana Gioia has been hailed for decades as a master of traditional lyric forms, whose expansive and accessible poems are offerings of rare poignancy and insight. In Meet Me at the Lighthouse, he invites us back to old Los Angeles, where the shabby nightclub of the title beckons us into its noirish immortality. Elsewhere, he laments the once-vibrant neighborhood where he grew up, now bulldozed, and recalls his working-class family of immigrants. Gioia describes a haunting from his mother on his birthday, Christmas Eve. Another poem remembers his uncle, a US Merchant Marine. And “The Ballad of Jesús Ortiz” tells the story of his great-grandfather, a Mexican vaquero who was shot dead at a tavern in Wyoming during a dispute over a bar tab. “I praise my ancestors, the unkillable poor,” Gioia writes. This book is dedicated to their memory.

Including poems, song lyrics, translations, and concluding with an unsettling train ride to the underworld, Meet Me at the Lighthouse is a luminous exploration of nostalgia, mortality, and what makes a life worth living and remembering.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 72
ISBN-13: 9781644452158
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1644452154
Kategori: Lyrik af en forfatter
Udg. Dato: 7 feb 2023
Længde: 10mm
Bredde: 228mm
Højde: 139mm
Forlag: Graywolf Press
Oplagsdato: 7 feb 2023
Forfatter(e): Dana Gioia
Forfatter(e) Dana Gioia

Kategori Lyrik af en forfatter

ISBN-13 9781644452158

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 72

Udgave

Længde 10mm

Bredde 228mm

Højde 139mm

Udg. Dato 7 feb 2023

Oplagsdato 7 feb 2023

Forlag Graywolf Press