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" As the publisher of FSG and the custodian of its legacy, I have an interested insider's view. "
Jonathan Galassi
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" Eugenio Montale - born in Genoa in 1896, died in Milan, 1981 - is one of the twentieth-century Europeans who has spoken most meaningfully to American and British poets. "
Jonathan Galassi
Born
British
Milan
" I was nearly 40 when I published my first book. I was a slow starter - or rather, I was slow to gather my work together, though I had published translations, mainly of the Italian poet Montale, by then. "
Jonathan Galassi
Work
First
Together
" I wanted to be involved with literature. I certainly wasn't going to be able to write for a living, and I didn't have enough confidence in my talent to think that I should be just doing that. Publishing seemed like fun to me - to be involved with writers. And it did turn out to be. "
Jonathan Galassi
Fun
Turn
Think
" Editing is more by-the-hip. You look at a text and ask yourself how it can be improved. "
Jonathan Galassi
Look
You
Editing
" The only thing you can really say in a poem is what you really, really deeply believe. "
Jonathan Galassi
Really
Poem
You
" There's been a fragmentation of how the market functions, but I believe printed books are here to stay. People like the tactile experience, the smell of them; there's a great romance to them. "
Jonathan Galassi
Believe
Like
People
" Poetry is not mainstream, but then neither is serious fiction, really. But I don't think there's a lot to worry about in this particular 'problem'. Why does art have to be mainstream to be significant? "
Jonathan Galassi
Poetry
Problem
Think
" The Futurists believed in the machine, in making a great big fuss, in being young. For a brief moment, they were arguably the most influential aesthetic provocateurs in the world. "
Jonathan Galassi
Moment
Young
World
" I think that a really good agent should be able to get the right publisher, which the agent has already figured out, get as much money as she can from that publisher, and make a deal, rather than have the amount of money determine the sale. That's what the best agents do. "
Jonathan Galassi
Money
Think
She
" I think that the continuity of what I do as an editor with what I did when I started out 40 years ago is very direct. The delivery system is changing and will continue to, but the actual interaction between publisher and author is exactly the same. "
Jonathan Galassi
Same
Interaction
Delivery
" Be patient, work hard and consistently, have faith in your writing, and don't be afraid to listen to constructive criticism. "
Jonathan Galassi
Writing
Faith
Work Hard
" I think poetry was always where I went to deal with my deepest feelings. "
Jonathan Galassi
Feelings
Deepest
Always
" I never thought I could write fiction. "
Jonathan Galassi
Thought
Fiction
Write
" I've always used poetry to explain myself to myself. These things just sat in my psyche and then came out. "
Jonathan Galassi
Always
Used
Explain
" Elizabeth Bishop in particular had a big impact on me personally as well as artistically. Her insistence on clarity is something I rate very highly. "
Jonathan Galassi
Her
Big
Clarity
" John Updike's first published book was a collection of poems. "
Jonathan Galassi
Published
John
First
" I've always loved the poetry in 'Pale Fire.' I think it's wonderful. "
Jonathan Galassi
Pale
Poetry
Always
" Giving oneself permission to write to begin with is the first enormous challenge. But you discover that this permission involves a requirement: To write about things that are difficult because they are, in fact, your subject. "
Jonathan Galassi
You
Giving
Fact
" A lot of great authors are published before their time. That's not wrong; it's just the way it works. "
Jonathan Galassi
Time
Just
Before
" If you've worked in a company for a long time, there's a mythology that you know by heart, you don't need to look it up to evoke. It's there in your blood, as it were. "
Jonathan Galassi
You
Heart
Know
" A translation needs to read convincingly. There's no limit to what can go into it in terms of background research, feeling, or your own interests in form and history. But what should come out is something that reads as convincing English-language text. "
Jonathan Galassi
Own
Feeling
History
" There's an old saw about journalism that the more you know about a subject, the less sense reporting about it makes. "
Jonathan Galassi
Know
You
Old
" My poems are always about my life in one way or another. "
Jonathan Galassi
Poems
Way
My Life
" Poetry is really about your mental state or intellectual, and where you are, and you're trying to evoke that, explain it to yourself, whatever, you're trying to dig into it, analyse yourself. "
Jonathan Galassi
Poetry
Yourself
You
" I love poetry; it's my primary literary interest, and I suppose the kind of reading you do when you are reading poems - close reading - can carry over into how you read other things. "
Jonathan Galassi
Over
Kind
Love
" Poems are endlessly renewable resources. Whatever you bring to them, at whatever stage of life, gets mirrored back, refracted, reread in new ways. "
Jonathan Galassi
Stage
Back
Bring
" Claiming your life for yourself feels like a huge deal until you do it. "
Jonathan Galassi
Deal
Like
Life
" I can write anywhere that's quiet. I have a study in my apartment, but I often work in the kitchen of a house that we rent in the country. "
Jonathan Galassi
Quiet
Kitchen
House
" Writing is inherently scary. "
Jonathan Galassi
Writing
Inherently
Scary
" I think poetry should be read very much like prose, except that the line breaks should be acknowledged somehow. "
Jonathan Galassi
Think
Breaks
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