Guide to the Dana Gioia Ephemera, 1984-1994
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Guide to the Dana Gioia Ephemera, 1984-1994
Collection number: M0699
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
Stanford, California
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- Phone: (650) 725-1022
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Dana Gioia ephemera,
Date (inclusive): 1984-1994
Collection number: M0699
Creator:
Gioia, Dana,
Extent:
1.5 linear ft.
Repository:
Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.
Abstract: American poet, literary critic, and translator.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
None.
Publication Rights
Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights
reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To
obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the
Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections.
Provenance
Gift of Dana Gioia, 1994.
Preferred Citation:
Dana Gioia Ephemera. M0699. Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biography
Dana Gioia (b. December 24, 1950) is a poet, literary critic, and translator. He was born in Hawthorne, California, the first
of his parents' (Michael Gioia and Dorothy Ortiz Gioia) four children. He received his bachelor's degree in English in 1973
from Stanford University. During his undergraduate years, he wrote for and eventually edited Sequoia, the campus literary
magazine. After Stanford he earned his masters' degree in English from Harvard University. There, Robert Fitzgerald and Elizabeth
Bishop were among his professors. Dissatisfied by the prospect of a career in academia, Gioia left Harvard for Stanford's
Business School before he finished his Ph.D. Gioia, then, worked for General Foods from 1977 until 1992 rising to Vice President,
all the while continuing to write. Since 1992, he has devoted full time to his literary career. Sometimes referred to as a
"New Formalist," Gioia searches in his writing for his own form, assimilating both traditional and free verse forms. Among
his collections of poetry are Daily Horoscope (1986), The Gods of Winter (1991), and Planting a Sequoia (1991). He has also
published many reviews, essays, and a collection of translations of Eugenia Montale's Italian poems. Gioia's support of and
interest in small presses add to his literary reputation and to his visibility as a young poet. He writes frequently for The
Hudson Review. He is the President of the Board of Directors of the Story Line Press (successor of The Reaper, Inc. which
published the poetry magazine, The Reaper). Gioia also joined the Board of Directors of the Wesleyan University Writers Conference
in 1985.
This biography compiled with reference to the Dictionary of Literary Biography. Volume 120. Edited by R. S. Gwynn. 84-90.
Scope and Content
The material in this collection has been sent to William G. McPheron, the Stanford University Libraries' Curator of British
and American Literature, by Dana Gioia as a sampling of his published and printed works, beginning in 1986 and continuing
through the present.
Gioia's and McPheron's correspondence with the materials Gioia sends mark the increasing visibility and influence of Gioia's
literary voice.
Access Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Carlson, Bernice Wells.
Helm, Robert.
Irwin, Virginia.
McPheron, William G.
Aralia Press.
Elizabeth Press.
Greywolf Press.
Story Line Press.
Wesleyan Writers Conference.
Phonotapes.
Box 1, Folder 1
Dana Gioia to William G. McPheron 7/1986-12/1986
Box 1, Folder 2
Dana Gioia to William G. McPheron 1/1987-7/1988
Box 1, Folder 3
Dana Gioia to William G. McPheron 8/1988-8/1989
Box 1, Folder 4
Dana Gioia to William G. McPheron 9/1989-12/1990
Box 1, Folder 5
Dana Gioia to William G. McPheron 1/1991-3/1993
Box 1, Folder 6
William G. McPheron to Dana Gioia 7/1986-6/1989
Box 1, Folder 7
William G. McPheron to Dana Gioia 9/1989-10/1990
Box 1, Folder 8
William G. McPheron to Dana Gioia 9/1991-6/1994
Box 1, Folder 9
William G. McPheron to Bernice Wells Carlson; Dana Gioia to Bernice Wells Carlson (1985-1986)
Box 1, Folder 10
William G. McPheron to Robert Helm 1987
Box 1, Folder 11
Virginia Irwin to William G. McPheron 1989
Box 1, Folder 13
Michael T. Ryan to Dana Gioia 1/30/1989
Box 1, Folder 14
Broadsides by Dana Gioia (Aralia Press)
Box 1, Folder 15
Broadsides by Dana Gioia ("The Printed Poem/The Poem as Print") ca.1985
Box 1, Folder 16
Reprints from The Hudson Review, by Dana Gioia 1981-1990
Box 1, Folder 17
Reprint of "Studying with Miss Bishop" (New Yorker), by Dana Gioia Sept. 15, 1986
Box 1, Folder 18
Review of Dana Gioia's Daily Horoscope 1987
Box 1, Folder 19
Sample Covers for Daily Horoscope and The Gods of Winter
Box 1, Folder 20
Ephemera celebrating life of Michael Jasper Gioia 1987-1988
Box 2, Folder 1
Mock-up of Poetry Matters, no. 8, 1990
Box 2, Folder 2
Aralia Press: Bright Dusk, by Daniel Corrie 1990
Box 2, Folder 3
Aralia Press: Ephemera 1985-1993
Box 2, Folder 4
Elizabeth Press (James L. Weil):
Keats, John. To My Brother George. 1984
Hazlitt, William. On the Living Poets. 1986
Shapiro, Karl. On Reading Keats in War Time. 1986
Weil, James L. and Jack Hnizdovsky. Two Poems to Two Prints. 1987
Shapiro, Karl. The Alphabet. 1988
Keats, John. Dear Reynolds, as last night
Keats, John. I lay in bed. 1991
Box 2, Folder 5
Elizabeth Press Pamphlets:
Bronk, William. Formalities. 1990
Bronk, William. Formal Declaration. 1990
Laughlin, James. Some People Think. 1984
Perlman, John. With Sun On. 1985
Bronk, William. The Attendant.1984
Eigner, Larry. there now here. 1985
Bronk, William. The Life. 1986
Woodhouse, Richard. Something Given. 1990
Bronk, William. Winter Evening. 1986
Brown, Spencer. Letter to a Young Poet. n.d.
Shapiro, Karl. "A Room in Rome." 1987
Bronk, William. The Untold. 1986
Bronk, William. Holy Orders. 1986
Keats, John. Wise and Otherwise. 1986
Bronk, William. Equinox. 1984
Bronk, William. What Art Is. 1986
Cox, Sidney. On the Lookout for a Poet. 1988
Box 2, Folder 7
Story Line Press ephemera
Box 2, Folder 8
Wesleyan Writers Conference Catalogs 1986-1994
Box 2, Folder 9
Announcements re: Gioia n.d.
Box 2, Folder 10
Announcements re: Gioia 1984-1985
Box 2, Folder 11
Announcements re: Gioia 1986
Box 2, Folder 12
Announcements re: Gioia 1987
Box 2, Folder 13
Announcements re: Gioia 1988
Box 2, Folder 14
Announcements re: Gioia 1989
Box 2, Folder 15
Announcements re: Gioia 1990
Box 2, Folder 16
Announcements re: Gioia 1991
Box 2, Folder 17
Announcements re: Gioia 1992
Box 2, Folder 18
Announcements re: Gioia1993
Box 2, Folder 19
Announcements re: Gioia 1994
Box 3, Folder 2
Collected articles on D. Gioia
Box 3, Folder 3
Collected articles on D. Gioia
Box 3, Folder 4
Collected articles on D. Gioia
Box 3, Folder 5
"A Garland for John Finlay" 1990
Physical Description: (2 copies)
Box 3, Folder 6
Poetry Review, v. 81, no. 4. 1991/1992
Box 3, Folder 7
Can Poetry Matter?, by Dana Gioia 1992
Box 3, Folder 8
"Un Reservoir à Paysages," by Dana Gioia and Fulvio Testa and "Traveling Images and Observations, Immagini e Annotazioni"
by Fulvio Testa, Gioia Timpanelli and Dana Gioia (1987)
Box 3, Folder 9
"Passion: National Juried Visual Art and Poetry Exhibition" (text by Dana Gioia)1994
Box 3, Folder 10
VIA (Voices in Italian Americana) v. 1, no. Spring 1990
Box 3, Folder 12
"Soundings;" National Humanities Center radio program; "An Evening of Poetry & Jazz: Dana Gioia & Ted Gioia" 1993
Physical Description: (2 cassettes)
