Gioia Woods
Biographic Data
| ID | 3990043 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gioia Woods |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gioia |
| FAMILY NAME | Woods |
| SIGNATURE | WOODS G |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“The scope of an epigram”
"Quickness," the second lecture collected in Six Memos for the New Millenium, is an essential value linking the old and new millennium. In this essay, I examine how "quickness" is deployed in Italo Calvino’s celebrated Marcolvaldo stories, giving special attention to the primary elements of quickness: enchantment and attachment. Herein I suggest how quickness communicates impending cultural and environmental catastrophe and the slow violence wrou…
Reinvent America and the World
American poet and publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti became a Cold War conduit for the publication and proliferation of postwar avant-garde and dissident poetry. In this essay I tell the story of how Ferlinghetti and his bookstore and press City Lights in San Francisco, California helped popularize international dissident poetry in the United States. This effort, I argue, was contingent upon the relationships Ferlinghetti cultivated with many intern…
Western Subjects
Journal Article Western Subjects: Autobiographical Writing in the North American West Get access Western Subjects: Autobiographical Writing in the North American West. Edited by Boardman Kathleen A. Woods Gioia. (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2004. vii + 447 pp. Notes, bibliographies, $24.95, paper.) Gary Scharnhorst Gary Scharnhorst University of New Mexico Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar West…
Wanderlust
Wanderlust: A History of Walking Get access Wanderlust: A History of Walking. By Rebecca Solnit. New York: Viking, 2000. 326 pp. Cloth $24.95. Paper $14.00. Gioia Woods Gioia Woods Northern Arizona University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Volume 8, Issue 2, Summer 2001, Pages 289–290, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/8.2.289 Published: 01 July 20…
Wanderlust
Wanderlust: A History of Walking Get access Wanderlust: A History of Walking. By Rebecca Solnit. New York: Viking, 2000. 326 pp. Cloth $24.95. Paper $14.00. Gioia Woods Gioia Woods Northern Arizona University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Volume 8, Issue 2, Summer 2001, Pages 289–290, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/8.2.289 Published: 01 July 20…
Wanderlust
Wanderlust: A History of Walking Get access Wanderlust: A History of Walking. By Rebecca Solnit. New York: Viking, 2000. 326 pp. Cloth $24.95. Paper $14.00. Gioia Woods Gioia Woods Northern Arizona University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Volume 8, Issue 2, Summer 2001, Pages 289–290, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/8.2.289 Published: 01 July 20…
Western Subjects
Journal Article Western Subjects: Autobiographical Writing in the North American West Get access Western Subjects: Autobiographical Writing in the North American West. Edited by Boardman Kathleen A. Woods Gioia. (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2004. vii + 447 pp. Notes, bibliographies, $24.95, paper.) Gary Scharnhorst Gary Scharnhorst University of New Mexico Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar West…
Reinvent America and the World
American poet and publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti became a Cold War conduit for the publication and proliferation of postwar avant-garde and dissident poetry. In this essay I tell the story of how Ferlinghetti and his bookstore and press City Lights in San Francisco, California helped popularize international dissident poetry in the United States. This effort, I argue, was contingent upon the relationships Ferlinghetti cultivated with many intern…
“The scope of an epigram”
"Quickness," the second lecture collected in Six Memos for the New Millenium, is an essential value linking the old and new millennium. In this essay, I examine how "quickness" is deployed in Italo Calvino’s celebrated Marcolvaldo stories, giving special attention to the primary elements of quickness: enchantment and attachment. Herein I suggest how quickness communicates impending cultural and environmental catastrophe and the slow violence wrou…
Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · History (2 works) · American poetry (1 works) · American west (1 works) · Anthropocene (1 works) · Archaeology and Natural History (1 works) · Cold war (1 works)