Interrogations at noon : poems
"Interrogations at Noon displays an extraordinary range of style and sensibility―from rhymed couplets to free verse, from surrealist elegy to satirical ballad. What unites the poems is not a single approach but their resonant musicality and powerful but understated emotion. This new collection explores the uninvited epiphanies of love and marriage, probing the quiet mysteries of a seemingly settled domestic life. Meditating on the inescapable themes of lyric poetry―time, mortality, nature, and the contradictions of the human heart―Gioia turns them to provocative and unexpected ends"--From Amazon.com
Print Book, English, 2001
Graywolf Press, Saint Paul, Minnesota, 2001