Jonathan Galassi – författare

An emotionally riveting collection that tells a powerful story of passion, loss, and transformation. Left-handed unfolds in the manner of an intense, searching novella. At its center is a one-way dialogue with an elusive character who beguiles and torments but also inspires the unnamed narrator, who at midlife is telling the tale. These poems—decisive, wrenching, exquisite—show an overpowering force, at once disruptive and creative, invading a settled existence. They take us from the streets of New York City to a house in the country, from the island of Naxos to the Roman Forum. They reach back to the sonnets of Shakespeare but find inspiration, too, in contemporary life. Naked and raw, lyrical yet formally inventive, rich with the melancholy wisdom of age, this is a work of resonant and shimmering beauty.

Poetry has always been at the heart of Farrar, Straus and Giroux's identity, ever since Robert Giroux first brought T. S. Eliot to the company. FSG's personality and literary profile have been defined by both the poets and the prose writers who have made it an imprint with a unique place in American letters.The FSG Poetry Anthology includes work by every one of the more than one hundred poets FSG has published in its seventy-five-year history. Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, John Berryman, and Randall Jarrell were central to the first generation of those poets, followed by the international figures and Nobel laureates Nelly Sachs, Seamus Heaney, Joseph Brodsky, and Derek Walcott.Over time the list expanded to include James Schuyler, John Ashbery, C. K. Williams, Charles Wright, Yusef Komunyakaa, Grace Paley, Gjertrud Schnackenberg, Yehuda Amichai, Paul Valéry, Marianne Moore, Mina Loy, Ted Hughes, and Adam Zagajewski.Today Carl Phillips, Maureen N. McLane, Ange Mlinko, Ishion Hutchinson, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Frederick Seidel, Henri Cole, francine j. harris, and Valzhyna Mort are among the poets who continue FSG's tradition as a premier discoverer and promoter of the most vital and distinguished contemporary poetic voices.Poetry and prose are two indissoluble sides of the same coin. This anthology offers a unique perspective on the best of contemporary literature over the past three generations.FSG president and long-time poetry editor Jonathan Galassi contributes a lively history of the role of poetry in the publishing house.

Paul Dukach is heir apparent at Purcell & Stern, one of the last independent publishing houses in New York, whose shabby offices belie the treasures of its list. Paul remains obsessed by one dazzling writer: poet Ida Perkins, whose outsize life and audacious verse have shaped America‘s contemporary literary landscape, and whose longtime publisher happens to be Purcell & Stern’s biggest rival. When Paul finally meets Ida, at her secluded Venetian palazzo, she entrusts him with her greatest secret – one that will change all of their lives forever.

Paul Dukach is heir apparent at Purcell & Stern, one of the last independent publishing houses in New York, whose shabby offices belie the treasures of its list. Paul remains obsessed by one dazzling writer: poet Ida Perkins, whose outsize life and audacious verse have shaped America‘s contemporary literary landscape, and whose longtime publisher happens to be Purcell & Stern’s biggest rival. When Paul finally meets Ida, at her secluded Venetian palazzo, she entrusts him with her greatest secret – one that will change all of their lives forever.

Montale's incandescently beautiful poetry is deeply rooted in the venerable lyric tradition that began with Dante, but he brilliantly reinvents that tradition for our time, probing the depths of love, death, faith and philosophy in the bracing light of modern history. Montale's poems teem with allusion and metaphor but at the same time are densely studded with concrete images that keep his complex musings firmly tethered to the world.Montale's reputation is international and enduring, and he has influenced generations of poets around the world. This volume contains selections from all his greatest works, rendered into English by the accomplished poet and translator Jonathan Galassi. It serves as both an essential introduction to an important poet and a true pleasure for lovers of contemporary poetry.

›Die Muse‹ von Jonathan Galassi: Eine Liebeserklärung an alle, die Bücher schreiben, verlegen und vor allem – lesen!New York in den Sechzigern: Geld war nicht nur Papier, Bücher hatten Substanz, Buchhandlungen waren Oasen. Der Verleger Homer Stern residiert in einem schäbigen Büro und sucht unter all den Manuskripten nach Schätzen. Diese missgönnt er vor allem seinem Rivalen Sterling Wainwright, dessen wichtigste Autorin, die Dichterin Ida Perkins, auch er über alle Maßen verehrt. Mit kühnen Versen - und einem exquisiten Lebensstil - hält sie die Leser in Atem: und das kann man nicht kaufen.Besonders einer ist fasziniert von Ida Perkins: Paul Dukach, Lektor bei Homer Stern. Ihr Werk kennt er in- und auswendig, ihr Wesen bleibt ihm jedoch ein Rätsel. Sein eigenes Leben dagegen steht ganz im Schatten der großen Autoren des Verlags: Ihre Eitelkeiten und Zusammenbrüche, ihre amourösen Verstrickungen und literarischen Meisterwerke sind stets von höchster Bedeutung. Als Paul endlich eine in Schönheit gealterte Ida Perkins in ihrem venezianischen Palazzo trifft, vertraut sie ihm ihr größtes Geheimnis an, das die Buchwelt auf den Kopf stellen wird.Mit satirischer Verve und nostalgischem Staunen zeichnet Galassi ein Bild von der heroischen Zeit des Büchermachens – von der Aufregung, ein vielversprechendes Debüt aus dem Stapel zu ziehen, bis zum quirligen Mekka der Frankfurter Buchmesse.