Jonathan Galassi - Muse

Ember and Icicle (Norfolk, Conn.: New Directions, 1945; London: Faber & Faber, 1946).

Aloofness and Frivolity (Norfolk, Conn.: New Directions, 1947; London: Faber & Faber, 1948).

In Your Face (New York: Impetus Editions, 1950).

Bringing Up the Rear (New York: Impetus Editions, 1954; London: Faber & Faber, 1955) [translated by Renée Schorr as Mes Derrières (Paris: De Noël, 1956)].

Striptease (London: Faber & Faber, 1957 [includes In Your Face ]; New York: Impetus Editions, 1958). National Book Award for Poetry, 1958; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1959.

The Face-lift Wars (New York: Impetus Editions, 1963; London: Chatto & Windus, 1963).

Nights in Lausanne (Cadenabbia: Drusilla Mongiardino, 1964; incorporated into Arte Povera, 1982).

Exquisite Emptiness (Geneva: Éditions de L’Herne, 1965; incorporated into Half a Heart, 1967).

Half a Heart (New York: Impetus Editions, 1967; London:

Chatto & Windus, 1969) [translated by Elsa Morante as Cuore dimezzato (Genoa: Edizioni del Melograno, 1973)]. National Book Award, 1967.

Remove from the Right (New York: Impetus Editions, 1970; London: Faber & Faber, 1971) [translated by Ingeborg Bachmann as Aus dem Rechten (Hamburg: Festiverlag, 1974)].

Barricade (New York: Impetus Editions, 1972; London: Faber & Faber, 1973) [translated by Claude Pélieu-Washburn and Mary Beach as Les fortifications intérieures (Geneva: Editions de la Trémoille, 1980)].

The Brownouts (London: Faber & Faber, 1974; New York: Impetus Editions, 1975).

Translucent Traumas: Selected Poems (New York: Impetus Editions, 1975). National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, 1976; Pulitzer Prize, 1976.

Doggy Days (St. Louis: Ferguson, Seidel & Williams, 1979; Hamburg: Festiverlag, 1982).

Arte Povera (New York: Impetus Editions, 1982; London: Faber & Faber, 1982) [translated by Harry Mathews under the same title (Paris: Mercure de France, 1986)]. National Book Award, 1982.

Marginal Discharge (New York: Impetus Editions, 1987).

Age Before Beauty (New York: Impetus Editions, 1991; London: Faber & Faber, 1991).

The Anticlimaxes (New York: Impetus Editions, 1995; London: Faber & Faber, 1996). National Book Award, 1996.

Aria di Giudecca (New York: Impetus Editions, 2000; London: Faber & Faber, 2000) [translated by Marialuisa Spaziani under the same title (Venice: Marsilio, 2002)].

Mnemosyne (New York: Purcell & Stern, 2011; London: Faber & Faber, 2011; and 37 editions worldwide). National Book Award, 2011; Pulitzer Prize, 2012.

The Complete Poems (New York: Impetus Editions/Purcell & Stern, 2014; London: Faber & Faber, 2014).

Underwater Lightning: Uncollected Poems and Drafts, edited by Paul Dukach (New York and San Francisco: Purcell & Stern/Medusa, 2020; London: Faber & Faber/Medusa, 2020).

Prescriptions and Projections: Prose Writings, edited by Eliot Weinberger (New York: Impetus Editions, 2021).

SEE ALSO

Elliott Blossom. Brownouts and Brilliants: The Instances of Ida Perkins (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2016).

Paul Dukach. Ida Perkins: Life and Art and Life (New York and San Francisco: Purcell & Stern/Medusa, 2019).

Alan Glanville. Mnemosyne Remembers: The Life of Ida Perkins (New York: Impetus Editions, 2018).

Hebe M. Horowitz. The Ida Era (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019).

Rosalind Horowitz. My Night with Arnold Outerbridge (and Other Tales from the Good Old Days) (New York: Boatwright Books, 2020).

The author gratefully salutes the following for help and encouragement of many sorts: Hans-Jürgen Balmes; Katherine Chen; Eric Chinski, Andrew Mandel, and my colleagues at Farrar, Straus & Giroux; Bill Clegg; Bob Gottlieb; Eliza Griswold; Margaret Halton; Michael Heyward; Leila Javitch; Jennifer Kurdyla; Laurence Laluyaux; Maureen McLane; David Miller; Darryl Pinckney; Justin Richardson; Stephen Rubin; Lorin Stein; and Roger Straus.

Special thanks to Tenoch Esparza, for everything; to my wise agent, Melanie Jackson; and, above all, to Robin Desser, for her prodigious insight, enthusiasm, and, well, impetus.

Jonathan Galassi is a lifelong veteran of the publishing world and the author of three collections of poetry, as well as translations of the Italian poets Eugenio Montale and Giacomo Leopardi. A former Guggenheim Fellow and poetry editor of The Paris Review, he also writes for The New York Review of Books and other publications. He lives in New York City.