Left-handed Poems
Left-handed Poems by Jonathan Galassi is a reprint edition published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group on October 8, 2013. This collection of poetry presents an emotionally riveting narrative that explores themes of passion, loss, and transformation through a one-way dialogue with an elusive character. The unnamed narrator, reflecting on midlife, shares a tale that unfolds with intensity and depth, drawing readers into a world shaped by both personal and universal experiences.
Within its 128 pages, Left-handed Poems offers a journey that traverses various landscapes, from the streets of New York City to the Roman Forum, while also echoing the sonnets of Shakespeare and contemporary life. The poems are described as decisive and wrenching, showcasing a creative force that disrupts and enriches a settled existence. Readers will find a blend of lyrical expression and formal inventiveness, infused with the melancholy wisdom of age, creating a work that resonates with beauty and insight.
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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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