North of Childhood
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Jonathan Galassi, “North of Childhood” from North Street and Other Poems (New York: HarperCollins, 2001). Copyright © 2001 by Jonathan Galassi. Reprinted with the permission of the author.
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Poet Jonathan Galassi b. 1949
POET’S REGION U.S., Mid-Atlantic
Subjects Nature, Living, Summer, Coming of Age, Youth, Parenthood
Poetic Terms Free Verse
Biography
In addition to publishing two volumes of poetry, Morning Run (1998) and North Street (2000), Jonathan Galassi is an eminent translator of Italian poetry. He has spent over 25 years studying Eugenio Montale’s poetry and has published several collections of Montale’s work, including Eugenio Montale: The Second Life of Art: Selected Essays (1982) and Collected Poems 1920–1954 (1998). Reviewing Collected Poems for the New York . . .
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SUBJECT Nature, Living, Summer, Coming of Age, Youth, Parenthood
POET’S REGION U.S., Mid-Atlantic
Poetic Terms Free Verse
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