As long as poets belonged to a broader class of artists and intellectuals, they centered their lives in urban bohemias, where they maintained a distrustful independence from institutions. Once poets began moving into universities, they abandoned the working-class heterogeneity of Greenwich Village and North Beach for the professional homogeneity of academia.


Essays - Can Poetry Matter? (1991)

Dana Gioia Quotes

As long as poets belonged to a broader class of artists and intellectuals, they centered their lives in urban bohemias, where they maintained a...

As long as poets belonged to a broader class of artists and intellectuals, they centered their lives in urban bohemias, where they maintained a...

As long as poets belonged to a broader class of artists and intellectuals, they centered their lives in urban bohemias, where they maintained a...

As long as poets belonged to a broader class of artists and intellectuals, they centered their lives in urban bohemias, where they maintained a...