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Galassi, Jonathan White was born on November 4, 1949 in Seattle, Washington, United States. Son of Gerard Goodwin and Dorothea Johnston (White) Galassi.
(Jonathan Galassi's second book of poems opens with a grou...)
Jonathan Galassi's second book of poems opens with a group of "dithyrambs," extravagant irregular compositions that evoke both the flow and ebb of the seasons and the currents of feeling in a life. Like the book as a whole, they draw on nature, history, and persona; history, the world outside and the world within--and on the treasure-house of language itself--as the poet works to find form for experience. The forty poems in North Street are concerned with the space between "Turning Forty" and "Turning Fifty," between the assumption of maturity and the sighting of its limits. All are preoccupied in one way or another with the notion of an "otherwhere," a "world I don't believe in" in which the "water of memory" is washed by "the water of forgetfulness," and the "touch of forgiveness" allows " a guilty man" to "go free." It is between these poles--between the recognition of aloneness and gratitude for "the gnawing, the knowing,/the being and being here"--that the drama, the story of North Street, unfolds.
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For this paperback edition the author has added more than twenty poems from his first collection, Morning Rain, originally published in 1988. The poems in North Street concern themselves with the space between "Turning Forty" and "Turning Fifty", between the assumption of maturity and the sightings of limits. Each poem resonates with a mesmerizing beauty, poignancy, and grace, and is preoccupied with the notion of an "otherwhere," a "world of forgetfulness" and the "touch of forgiveness" allows "a guilty man" to "go free". It is between these poles -- between "original desire" and conditional freedom, between recognition of aloneness and gratitude for "the gnawing, the knowing,/the being and being here" -- that the drama, the story of North Street, penetrating unfolds.
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First edition, unrevised and unpublished proofs. Table of contents. Damp stained on the corner, slight soiling, and a small tear on the spine. viii, 66 pages. stiff paper wrappers. 8vo..
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Galassi, Jonathan White was born on November 4, 1949 in Seattle, Washington, United States. Son of Gerard Goodwin and Dorothea Johnston (White) Galassi.
AB, Harvard University, 1971; Master of Arts, Cambridge (England) University, 1976.
Editor, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, New York City, 1973-1981; senior editor, Random House, Inc., New York City, 1981-1986; executive editor, vice president, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc., New York City, 1986-1987; editor in chief, senior vice president, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc., New York City, 1988-1993; executive vice president, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc., New York City, since 1993.
(Jonathan Galassi's second book of poems opens with a grou...)
(For this paperback edition the author has added more than...)
(First edition, unrevised and unpublished proofs. Table of...)
Fellow: American Academy Arts and Science. Member: Academy American Poets (board directors since 1990, president 1994-1999, chairman 1999—2001, honorary chairman since 2002).
Married Susan Grace, June 21, 1975. Children: Isabel Grace, Beatrice Grace.