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Dana Gioia: ‘I feel a poem physically’
When a poem comes to Dana Gioia it hits him physically. We join the Poet Laureate of California as he turns an urgent feeling into words, rhythm, story, as he weaves a major new poem, ‘The Ballad of Jesus Ortiz’.
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