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" I think poetry was always where I went to deal with my deepest feelings. "
Jonathan Galassi
Feelings
Deepest
Always
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" Be patient, work hard and consistently, have faith in your writing, and don't be afraid to listen to constructive criticism. "
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" I feel that there is not an endlessly expandable universe of fiction readers. "
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" 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. "
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" Poems are endlessly renewable resources. Whatever you bring to them, at whatever stage of life, gets mirrored back, refracted, reread in new ways. "
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" 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? "
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" Everything is different - except for publishing itself: getting hold of an amazing author, working to make his or her book the best and best-looking it can be, telling the world. "
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" There are courses you can take to learn the mechanics of the business, like the Radcliffe course, but I don't think they teach you how to edit. "
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" I never thought I could write fiction. "
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" 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. "
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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
" A publisher - and I write as one - does far more than print and sell a book. It selects, nurtures, positions and promotes the writer's work. "
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" 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. "
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Believe
Like
People
" My biggest concern about the market is the force that acts to drive down price, because I think that's destructive to authors as well as publishers. Our biggest battle is to underline the value of intellectual property. "
Jonathan Galassi
Battle
Value
Price
" I think publishers need to be the ones that publish the books and control that process: finding writers, helping them with their work, finding readers. I think writers need that. "
Jonathan Galassi
Work
Process
Finding
" The FSG story starts to lose its fairy-tale aura when filthy lucre invades the sacred enclosure, as it did ubiquitously in the every-man-for-himself Reagan era. "
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Starts
Story
Aura
" The only thing you can really say in a poem is what you really, really deeply believe. "
Jonathan Galassi
Really
Poem
You
" As the publisher of FSG and the custodian of its legacy, I have an interested insider's view. "
Jonathan Galassi
Legacy
View
Custodian
" 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
" 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
" Writing is inherently scary. "
Jonathan Galassi
Writing
Inherently
Scary
" I'll tell you - there's no author that wants to give his mother an e-book of his new book. I think he wants to present her with - or she - wants to present her with something beautiful that he or she created. "
Jonathan Galassi
You
Mother
Book
" 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. "
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" Editing is more by-the-hip. You look at a text and ask yourself how it can be improved. "
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Look
You
Editing
" There's an old saw about journalism that the more you know about a subject, the less sense reporting about it makes. "
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Know
You
Old
" My poems are always about my life in one way or another. "
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Poems
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" One thing I have noticed is that when you're a younger editor, you're more intense about it. As you go along, you relax a little. More and more, I feel that the book is the author's. You give the author your thoughts, and it's up to him or her to decide what to do. "
Jonathan Galassi
Relax
Thoughts
Feel
" 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. "
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Work
First
Together
" A lot of great authors are published before their time. That's not wrong; it's just the way it works. "
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Time
Just
Before
" 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. "
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Quiet
Kitchen
House
" The price of an e-book is a lot less than the price that we're charging for a hardcover book. It's about the same as we charge for a paperback. And that means a different revenue stream. "
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Book
Price
Same