Weep, Shudder, Die: The Secret of Opera Revealed (with Dana Gioia)

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We'd love to hear from you. Today is December 19th, 2024, and my guest is poet and author Dana Joya. This is Dana's third appearance on Econ Talk. He was last year in April of 2023 talking about poetry and death. Our topic for today is his latest book, Weep, Shudder, Die on opera and poetry.

Dana, welcome back to Econ Talk. It's good to be seeing you again. It's great to see you as well. This book is about two of my favorite things and a few more, opera and poetry, but We have to be honest, opera and poetry are not the most popular things among most Americans and many other people around the world.

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