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, prosy language into poetry and I understand that desire. But they don't edit. It's not very curated work. It seems very lackluster, very uncareful. It may be the un-carefulness is also something they intend but there's a kind of "So what?" quality to a lot of it.
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
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
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
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 …
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
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…
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
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 …
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
Italian is a very different poetic situation and there are these hard and fast rhythmic periods, settenari, ottonari of seven and eight syllables. Th…
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 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 …
Poetry is always in transformation. There are certain aspects of contemporary Italian poetry that are very preoccupied with politics and deconstructi… - Jonathan W. Galassi
Poetry is always in transformation. There are certain aspects of contemporary Italian poetry that are very preoccupied with politics and deconstructi…
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
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…
There is something essential and necessary about the immediacy and democracy of poetry. If you look at the history of literature, poetry is the one e… - Jonathan W. Galassi
There is something essential and necessary about the immediacy and democracy of poetry. If you look at the history of literature, poetry is the one e…
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