I think that my early poems were probably more concerned with time passing because of unfulfilled desires or yearnings. Now, I feel younger than I fe…

- Jonathan W. Galassi

Poetry is an ongoing conversation with the past and the future and the present. I'm interested in that continuity, in that way of tying civilization …

- Jonathan W. Galassi

I love to publish new writers, and we do so consistently. But a lot of contemporary American poets sound alike to me. They want to bring spoken, pros…

- Jonathan W. Galassi

Italian is a very different poetic situation and there are these hard and fast rhythmic periods, settenari, ottonari of seven and eight syllables. Th…

- Jonathan W. Galassi

If you're reading an exciting book, it raises an expectation but it also raises a fear that the author is not going to deliver, that the expectation …

- Jonathan W. Galassi

I wanted to be involved with literature. I certainly wasn't going to be able to write for a living, and I didn't have enough confidence in my talent …

- Jonathan W. Galassi

I'm old-fashioned enough to really still believe that the poem is an object to be memorized, venerated... I still believe in that kind of poem. A lot…

- Jonathan W. Galassi

Poetry is always in transformation. There are certain aspects of contemporary Italian poetry that are very preoccupied with politics and deconstructi…

- Jonathan W. Galassi

I use poetry to explain myself to myself. It is a way of investigating who you really are, what you feel, what survives the pressure of writing. Ther…

- Jonathan W. Galassi