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Poetry as Enchantment: And Other Essays Entertainment_Gift_Guide and goats around him toGioia joins W. H. Auden, Randall Jarrell, and D. H. Lawrence in embracing criticism that is insightfully intellectual and surprisingly personal . . . Always a canny discussant of contemporary poetics, Gioia again provides vital guidance for evaluating poetry that will appeal to tenured professors and armchair aficionados alike. BooklistFew critics write more engagingly and perceptively about poetry than Dana Gioia . . . Michael Dirda, Washington Post