Dana Gioia is the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts and an accomplished poet and literary critic. But he also has an MBA and used to be a Vice President of Marketing at General Foods. Kurt Andersen asks Gioia about straddling the worlds of poetry and corporate America.
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