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Horoscope is Dana Gioia's first volume of poetry,
published by Graywolf in 1986.
Praise
for Daily Horoscope:
"If there's a turn now toward a more traditional poetry.
. . the Gioia's in the vanguard. If not, then he must seem even
more singular, an original. In either case, his work—in
which dream and reality keep intersecting most beautifully—has
to count simply by being so very good."
—Donald
Justice
"Daily
Horoscope is a stunning first book. . . Gioia is a master of
forms. He experiments with old ones, and in a few instances
has taken to inventing new ones." —Robert Phillips,
Arrival
"Page for page, seldom has a first collection offered so
many aesthetically, psychologically, and philosophically satisfying
poems."
—Booklist
"Daily
Horoscope, in the finest sense, represents the perfect synthesis
of maker and object made. It would be specious to praise this
volume as a first book. Gioia has given us a book that is more
accomplished than recent publications by many more celebrated
practitioners."
—Robert
McDowell, The Hudson Review
"Here
we have a truly exceptional poet. In his mid-thirties, Dana
Gioia can be compared to Wallace Stevens and not be routed by
the comparison."
—Raymond
Nelson, Virginia Quarterly Review
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