Interrogations at Noon is the winner of the
2002 American Book Award.

Al Young and Dana Gioia at the ABA Ceremony

Interrogations at Noon is the rare book of poetry that truly has been — without exaggeration — much anticipated. Dana Gioia is notably prolific with his essays, reviews, and anthologies. But like his celebrated teacher, Elizabeth Bishop, Gioia is meticulously painstaking and self-critical about his own poems. In an active twenty-five-year career he has published only two previous volumes of poetry.

Online reviews of Interrogations at Noon:

The News & Observer (Fred Chappell)
Acumen (William Oxley)
The Philadelphia Inquirer (Susan Balée)
Italian Americana (Jack Foley)

"He is well on the way to becoming a classic poet."

- Ray Olson, Booklist

"Interrogations at Noon is Gioia's third book of poetry and it is achingly good."

—Susan Balée, The Philadelphia Inquirer
(read the full review here)

"[This book] is unlike anything produced by anyone else in America. Sicilian, Mexican and Native American in his ancestry, Gioia writes out of a "dark" Catholic Sensibility — a sensibility which sees "the end of the world" in every sensuous detail around him."

— Jack Foley, Italian Americana
(read the full review here)