Meet Me at the Lighthouse by Dana Gioia

Meet Me at the Lighthouse by Dana Gioia

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.

Dana Gioia is the author of five previous collections, including 99 Poems: New & Selected, winner of the Poets' Prize, and Interrogations at Noon, winner of the American Book Award. He is the former California Poet Laureate.

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ISBN 13	9781644452158
ISBN 10	1644452154
Titel	Meet Me at the Lighthouse
Autor	Dana Gioia
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Graywolf Press,U.S.
Erscheinungsjahr	2023-02-07
Seitenanzahl	72
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.