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 together. It's like shoe laces, it holds things together.
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
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…
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 …
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 …
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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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