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Faith in the Furnace of Doubt Robert M. Baird and support students post-school goalsDana Gioia's characters and verses cry from the depths, their faith tried and purified in the furnace of doubt. Enchanted by Gioia's visionary poetics, the reader discovers that deep faithfulness comes only by way of the via negativa: profundity is preceded by privation; suffering is the school of sure hope; a lover who cannot conquer evil's great absence has never has he? ever really loved. Gioia's poetry is an ideal site for thoughtful exposition of