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Dana Gioia: poets who write in traditional forms and survive outside of academia are as scarce as lighthouse keepers. Add real business experience and a personal mission of national service to his profile and you've described George Bush's chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts--a rara avis.("Live" with TAE)
The National Endowment for the Arts, which came within a urine-soaked crucifix or two of abolition in the 1990s, is now embarked on its most outre experiment of all: a poetical chairmanship. For NEA chairman Dana Gioia is among the finest living American poets and a major figure in the "New Formalism," a kind of traditionalist rebellion that promotes meter and rhyme against the modern tyranny of formlessness.
Dana Gioia is the most off beat agency chairman in the federal government. He is a poet, not a bureaucrat; a literary critic raised in a working-class Mexican-Italian family; and a translator of Italian verse who also writes with a native's love of ...
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