Left-handed

Poems

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On sale Mar 20, 2012 | 128 Pages | 9780307957436

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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.
JONATHAN GALASSI is the president and publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He is the author of three poetry collections, including Left-handed: Poems (Knopf, 2012), and has published his translations of the Italian poets Giacomo Leopardi and Eugenio Montale. View titles by Jonathan Galassi

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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.

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JONATHAN GALASSI is the president and publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He is the author of three poetry collections, including Left-handed: Poems (Knopf, 2012), and has published his translations of the Italian poets Giacomo Leopardi and Eugenio Montale. View titles by Jonathan Galassi

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