99 poems : new & selected /
99 Poems: New & Selected for the first time gathers work from across his career, including a dozen remarkable new poems. Gioia has not ordered this selection chronologically. Instead, his great subjects organize this volume into broad themes of mystery, remembrance, imagination, place, stories,...
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Minneapolis, Minnesota :
Graywolf Press,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Pt I. The Burning Ladder
- Insomnia
- The Stars Now Rearrance Themselves
- Nothing Is Lost
- Do Not Expect
- Beware of Things in Duplicate
- All Souls'
- On Approaching Forty
- Maze without a Minotaur
- Words
- Interrogations at Noon
- Entrance
- New Year's
- The Angel with the Broken Wing
- Prophecy
- The Road
- Prayer at Winter Solstice
- Monster
- Homage to Soren Kierkegaard
- Pt II. Place
- California Hills in August
- Cruising with the Beach Boys
- In Chandler Country
- In Cheever Country
- The Garden on the Campagna
- Most Journeys Come to This
- Waiting in the Airport
- Men after Work
- Rough Country
- Becoming a Redwood
- A California Requiem
- The End of the World
- Shopping
- Sea Pebbles: An Elegy
- Vultures Mating
- Progress Report
- Pt III. Rememberance
- Prayer
- Night Watch
- Veterans' Cemetery
- The Song
- The Gods of Winter
- Planting a Sequoia
- Metamorphosis
- Pentecost
- The Litany
- Unsaid
- Finding a Box of Family Letters
- Special Treatments Ward
- Majority
- My Handsome Cousin
- Pt IV. Imagination
- Elegy for Vladimir de Pachmann
- Lives of the Great Composers
- God Only Knows
- A Curse on Geographers
- A Short History o f Tobacco
- Guide to the Other Gallery
- My Confessional Sestina
- The Silence of the Poets
- Money
- The Next Poem
- Elegy with Surrealist Proverbs as Refrain
- Autumn Inaugural
- The Seven Deadly Sins
- Deal with the Devil
- Meditation on a Line from Novalis
- Title Index to My Next Book of Poems
- Pt V. The Room Upstairs
- Counting the Children
- Homecoming
- Haunted
- Style
- Pt VI. The Country Wife
- Song for the End of Time
- The Archbishop
- Nosferatu's Serenade
- Mad Song
- Alley Cat Love Son
- Marketing Department Trio
- Pity the Beautiful
- Reunion
- The Heart of the Matter
- Cold San Francisco
- Household Gods
- Film Noir
- Pt VII. Love
- Thanks for Remembering Us
- The Sunday News
- Speech from a Novella
- Speaking of Love
- Equations of the Light
- The Voyeur
- Spider in the Corner
- Summer Storm
- The Lost Garden
- Being Happy
- The Present
- The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet
- The Apple Orchard
- Come Back
- An Old Story
- Marriage of Many Years.