Left-Handed: Poems (Borzoi Books) |  | Author: Jonathan Galassi
Publisher: Knopf
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 216,012
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 128
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 6.5 x 0.6 x 9.5
ISBN: 030795708X
EAN: 9780307957085
ASIN: 030795708X
Publication Date: March 20, 2012
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Product Description
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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