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 is not going to be met, you're going to be disappointed by a wrong turn. But when the thing is completed, the exhilaration and gratitude are deeply intense. You've gotten to read a great thing at its moment of emergence.
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
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 …
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 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…
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…
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'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
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…
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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