Description: As editor, translator, president of the Academy of American Poets, and poet in his own right, Jonathan Galassi is a notable literary figure of our time. This long-awaited second collection presents a mature poet with dazzling technical skill and an astonishing ability to create a sense of place in the mind of the reader. These new poems reveal most importantly a beautiful, elegiac sense of the changes that life brings at the half-point between youth and old age, when the knowledge of what has been lost has not fully replaced a sense of all that is possible to find. With a stringent sadness all its own, North Street is a fresh and original addition to modern poetry.

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