“In an age of global standardization, regional voices also remind both writer and reader that no life is lived generically. If the purpose of literature is truly, as the ancients insisted, to instruct and delight, then what better to understand and enjoy than the here and the now?”

—  Dana Gioia

"Fallen Western Star," Denver Quarterly (Fall 1998)
Essays

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