[New-Poetry] BizPo: Dana Gioia on the Close Connection betweenBusiness and Poetry

[Roger Day]

and wallace stevens was in insurance, and ts eliot a banker (no punintended) but none of them tried to fuse poetry, business andmediocrity in precisely the same way as Gioia. and I've read Gioia.Eliot is, I would say, Gioia's polar opposite in poetry.
On 5/31/07, Anny Ballardini <anny.ballardini at tin.it> wrote:>>> I didn't read enough work by Dana Gioia to speculate on the quality, but I> would like to remind people that Leonardo was excellent in engineering and> in painting, Pessoa spent his life inside an office, we all know of Kafka,> and there are plenty more if we give it a tiny thought.>> From the interview to Dana Gioia:>> "For that reason, I did not let anyone I worked with know that I was a poet.> This is because, let me ask you a question, if you had a poet working for> you, wouldn't you check his or her addition? So privately I went through a> very difficult time. That being said, as you rise in business, as you get> out of the lower level staff jobs and the quantitative analysis, and you get> into the higher level of problems, I felt that I had an enormous advantage> over my colleagues because I had a background in the imagination, in> language and in literature.">>> ----- Original Message -----> From: amy king> To: NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &amp,Views> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 7:16 PM> Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] BizPo: Dana Gioia on the Close Connection> betweenBusiness and Poetry>> Dana Gioia and John Barr should throw down one day, wrestling over who has> more moxy when it comes to making money out of art while simultaneously> making insipid remarks about the state of poetry past, present, future.  Who> would win that title?>>> jforjames at aol.com wrote:>> http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1745&source=rss> Dana Gioia on the Close Connection between Business and Poetry> Published: May 30, 2007 in Knowledge at Wharton> This article has been read 1,593 Times> ����> �> Dana Gioia (pronounced Joy-a) claims to be the only person in history who> went to business school to be a poet. Having earned a degree from Stanford's> graduate school of business, he worked 15 years in corporate life,> eventually becoming vice president of General Foods. In 1991, Gioia wrote an> influential collection of essays titled, "Can Poetry Matter?" in which he> explored, among other themes, the nexus between business and poetry. Since> 2002, he has been chairman of the National Endowment of the Arts where he> has overseen programs aimed at making Shakespeare and poetry recitation more> popular in the U.S. Gioia, who is a speaker at the Wharton Leadership> Conference in Philadelphia on June 7, talked about these ideas with> management professor Michael Useem and Knowledge at Wharton.>>>>>>  ________________________________>  Get the free Yahoo! toolbar and rest assured with the added security of> spyware protection.>>  ________________________________>>> _______________________________________________> New-Poetry mailing list> New-Poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu> http://wiz.cath.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/new-poetry>>>>>> _______________________________________________> New-Poetry mailing list> New-Poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu> http://wiz.cath.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/new-poetry>>

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